My wife and I, being born into white privilege, decided to take an approximately 2,400-mile trip in our gasoline-powered Ford Fusion traveling from Springfield, Illinois to Boston to Niagara Falls and back to Springfield.  I thought as I was driving what would it be like driving a $100,000 Tesla Model S all-electric car instead of our $30,000 Ford Fusion.  For our car, I stopped around eight times to fill up for a total time of about an hour.  In the Tesla, I would have had to charge up eight times for a total of around eight hours (charging a Tesla from empty to full takes over an hour) – if I could find charging stations.  People would obviously stop more often than that, because they would never run the battery all the way to zero. Tesla Model S at a charging station in Folsom, California (via Wikipedia). Think how big service stations would have to be if everyone drove electric cars as we get rid of gasoline. The reason the...(Read Full Post)