Agreed on all points. The fact is, the Nissan Leaf (the car used in this article) is insufficient for any sort of road tripping. It's fine for intra-city travel

Agreed on all points. The fact is, the Nissan Leaf (the car used in this article) is insufficient for any sort of road tripping. It's fine for intra-city travel but using it for roadtrips will cause pain like OP experienced. Most importantly, the Nissan Leaf still uses the antiquated CHAdeMO connector for fast charging... which is both becoming more difficult to find these days, but also cannot provide as high of power as the most traditional CCS1 (or, Tesla's Supercharger network), which results in extremely slow charge times compared to other standards. Obviously, the OP also didn't even use DC fast charging... but that appears to be because they chose go via a route that has no DCFC between the two cities. Both cities have DCFCs in each city, so if you could make the drive in one charge (which, almost every modern EV can... BESIDES the Nissan Leaf), then you'd be fine. Funny enough, if you look at the route in Plugshare... the only company that has any sort of DCFCs inbetween those two cities is Tesla. There's a Supercharger that is directly inbetween the two cities.