When hitting the road in an electric vehicle, plan for the unexpected

Planning to take a road trip in your electric vehicle (EV)? Think you have planned thoroughly and anticipated everything that could go wrong? So did we.

Our 1,600-mile road trip from Maryland to Georgia and back again would be the first long-range test of our new Nissan Leaf SV Plus and its 220-mile battery range. In preparation for the journey, my wife, Davina, and I plotted and calculated our stops and tried to anticipate any potential issues. We even practiced speed-charging at some local stations...