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Jim McTague former Washington editor of Barron's magazine now a novelist taking a road trip from Lancaster County, the best county in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania the Keystone State.

All the way to Kentucky, he did not take his little red Tesla roadster that he loves to drive. Why not, Mr.

McDay, good evening to you. Good evening, John. I may be a retired guy, but I don't live a life of leisure.

The Tesla would have added four hours each way to the trip so that the 11 hours of driving would have been close to 15. You know, maybe in the future I can take an extra day or two to take the Tesla out there but I'm still a

busy man.

Where are the chargers?

Now you're taking the Pennsylvania Turnpike west to Route 70 into Ohio.

Are the chargers along that route or do you have to search them out?

Well, there are chargers on the turnpike, but not at every rest stop. So you have to program a

Tesla in advance, and it will take you to the charging station when you need it. But once you get off the Pennsylvania

turnpike and not all the charging stations are immediately adjacent to the

highway.

Sometimes you end up in a little town and you have to find some kind of a car dealership or some kind of a charging business in some neighborhood off the beaten track.

And you said that the Tesla would take you to a charging station.

That means it abducts you or it guides you there?

It guides you there.

Okay. It does a calculation, you know, determines

when you should get to the charging station. Well after my own devices and

calculation my 10 fingers I would easily run out of power.

Instead you drove a Mazda SUV monster and paid between 390 and

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