It would be good to develop a rapport with the sort of psychos and drug fiends who hang out at homeless encampments, considering that electric vehicle changing stations have been turning into them, that Big Government has been moving to mandate EVs at both the state and national levels, and that if you can afford an electric car, you will spend a lot of time charging it:

Xaviar and Alice Steavenson wanted to find out what it’s like to drive a Tesla, so they rented one from Hertz for a trip from Orlando, Florida, to Wichita, Kansas.

They found out, all right.

Xaviar Steavenson told Insider it got to the point that the “battery would drain faster than it would charge.”

When they set off, Steavenson said, they could drive for at least 2 ½ hours before needing to charge the Tesla. “We ended up having to stop every one to 1 ½ hours to charge for an hour, then an hour and a half, then two hours,” he said.

“So beyond the lost time, it also got to the point it was between $25 and $30 to recharge,” Steavenson said. “Just in one day, we stopped six times to charge at that cost.”

Of course, for the money, you don’t just get electricity that was mostly generated by burning fossil fuels. You also get to showcase your reverence for the climate.

On a tip from Wiggins.