It's truly amazing how little most people in the United States know about electric cars.
I wish that not all CCS/Level 3/"Fast" electric vehicle chargers were in metro areas, especially out here in the American West. I just decided not to drive my Chevy Bolt from Denver to my sister's in Goleta, Calif. (1,200 miles one way) for Christmas because there is not a SINGLE CCS charger along I-70/I-15 between Denver and Fillmore, Utah, 511 miles west of Denver.
In September of 2013, a megastorm that caused massive flooding along Colorado's Front Range hit. At the time, my family and I were living in a single family home in Aurora, Colo. -- complete with a 5.5 kW solar system we had had installed in June of 2010.
In the two months I’ve been driving my newly leased Chevy Bolt around the Denver area (my Bolt replaced a 2014 Nissan LEAF I had leased for three and a half years), I’ve seen three other Bolts -- not very many.
So, I drove my newly leased Chevy Bolt — a red LT — from my townhome in Littleton, Colo. to Estes Park, Colo. to attend a meditation retreat this weekend.
So, I got into it with another electric car advocate on Facebook recently. A woman had posted a question in...