Kind of interesting Wall Street Journal article

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The title:, "I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping.
Our writer drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back to test the feasibility of taking a road trip in an EV. She wouldn’t soon do it again"...By Rachel WolfeFollow

Updated June 3, 2022 3:53 pm ET

"I thought it would be fun.

That’s what I told my friend Mack when I asked her to drive with me from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric car.

I’d made long road trips before, surviving popped tires, blown headlights and shredded wheel-well liners in my 2008 Volkswagen Jetta. I figured driving the brand-new Kia EV6 I’d rented would be a piece of cake.

If, that is, the public-charging infrastructure cooperated..."
 
Like so much "journalism" these days - start with a conclusion, set up a straw man, and then demolish it.

They could have saved themselves a lot of grief just by downloading ABRP (or by renting a Tesla). But that would have interfered with their narrative.
 
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