How renting an EV for a four-day road trip turned into a nightmare
Here, at least, the estimated charging time is only an hour -- and we get to make use of two automatic massage chairs while we wait.
"You remember when the microwave came out? Or DVD players?" says Dennis Boatwright, a 58-year-old tree surgeon. "When you first get them the prices were real high, but the older they are, the cheaper they get.""I'm hoping, too," he says.After the Birmingham suburbs, our journey takes us along nightmarish, dark mountain roads. We stop for snacks at a gas station featuring a giant chicken in a chef's costume.
It isn't all smooth sailing, though. At one point we find ourselves wandering through a Kroger, sopping wet, in search of coffee after wrestling with a particularly finicky charger in the rain. By this point, not once have we managed to back in close enough to reach the pump, or gotten the stiff cord hooked around the right way on the first try.In the parking lot of a Clarksville, Ind.
While she loves embracing the future, she says, her family has been giving her so much pushback that she is considering trading the car in and going back to gas.At another Walmart, in Indianapolis, we meet Bill Stempowski as he waits for his Ford Mustang Mach-E to charge. A medical-equipment operations manager, 45, he drives all over the Midwest from his home in LaGrange, Ohio, for work.In nine months, he says, he's put 30,000 miles on the car and figures he's saved thousands on gas.
"Don't say that!" she says. "We're at the mercy of this goddamn spaceship." She still hasn't mastered the lie-flat door handles after three days. We feel defeated pulling into a Nissan Mazda dealership in Mattoon, Ill. "How long could it possibly take to charge the 30 miles we need to make it to the next fast station?" I wonder.Three hours. It takes 3 hours.
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