8 Drivers of electric vehicles who wish to take them on road trips need to plan ahead carefully. Here, a fast charging station in the parking lot of a Whole Foods Market in Austin, Texas. REUTERS
Bradley Wilkinson is the owner of a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt, and the kind of electric-vehicle diehard who knows how to squeeze every last mile of range out of his vehicle.
Even so, during his most recent road trip, from Tampa, Florida, back home to Fort Carson, Colorado, he spent about 58 hours on the road. In a gasoline-powered vehicle, on average, the 1,900-mile journey would take about 30. His relatively sluggish pace was due to his need to regularly power up the Bolt s battery at a fast charger so called because they re many times faster than typical home chargers.
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