> I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping. Rather than trying to plan their own route they should

> I Rented an Electric Car for a Four-Day Road Trip. I Spent More Time Charging It Than I Did Sleeping. Rather than trying to plan their own route they should have just used A Better Routeplanner for their route and charging strategy: https://abetterrouteplanner.com https://abetterrouteplanner.com New Orleans to Chicago is possible in a Kia EV6 AWD Long Range with only 1 hour 34 minutes of charging. Even if charging went slow and it ballooned out to 7 hours that's still much better than what they did. > He suspects our car is the less-expensive EV6 model with a range not of 310 miles, as listed on Turo, but 250. He says he can’t be sure what model we were driving without physically inspecting the car. Yes, you need to know what car you're driving and what it will do. EV infrastructure isn't as good as ICE infrastructure yet. You need to know what you're about before you start.