If you drive an electric vehicle, you know that range anxiety is a real thing, the fear that your battery could die when you're out on the road.

Our colleague Jennifer Hiller says it's one of the things that's holding people back from buying

EVs.

E.V. charging can make a lot of E drivers uneasy because you have to do just a little bit more

thinking about where you're going to stop and what just what path you're going to take and

if there's chargers along the way.

I have 4% left and the closest charger is 4.6 miles away.

So that's not good. My car currently says zero miles left.

And obviously the harder you drive the more

battery you're using so I'm going to try to have a light foot today because I

really don't want to lose power in the middle of the highway. I barely have

enough range to make it to the next charger, but I have to go, so I'm going to risk it.

Most people who own EVs right now own homes, and so a lot of people can charge in their

garage or in their driveway. Where you hear concern is from people who are in

apartments or condos or maybe renting and they may not have easy access

to be able to charge at home.

One company has done more than any other to address this issue. Tesla.

Tesla started building a charging network over a decade ago,

and now it has thousands of charging stations across the U.S.

allowing drivers to juice up their cars in about a half an hour.

I think they realized essentially far before other people did that you had to have the chargers in the ground to be able to get people to buy the cars.

And so they put a lot of capital into building out this network that allowed it to sell a

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