Actually this piece of junk is a hybrid and you wouldn't need to stop at all, the car would simply switch to the small gas engine, thus becoming a CO2 polluting machine along with all the other gas burning cars on the road(no need for sarc tag there I don't think). This car does not get the so called mileage it claims for the simple fact that if you want to take a major trip you will be on Gas most of the way. Say you want to take a long road trip, one that would take at least two days to get there. That would mean running on gas for all but the first 25-40 miles on the first day and when you stopped for the night there would be no charging station waiting for you so it would be all Gas on the second day and probably all gas on the return trip also.
This electric car BS is just that, BS, until such times as really good batteries are invented, which my never happen. Even so, there is really very little advantage with electricity since it has to be generated with some type of fuel for the most part, in order to charge the batteries.
Electric cars are the invention of the left to try and force US citizens to give up their freedom to travel where ever they wish in their gas powered cars.
That would be the ‘Real World’ Volt that gets 25 miles on a battery charge instead of the 40 miles claimed. The Volt is the perfect example of a government program whereby one cannot pickup a turd by the clean end.
Last year, one of the UK papers decided to replicate the 19th century London-Glasgow Express Coach (pulled by horses) run using a cutting-edge 21st century electric car. The distance is slightly less than 400 miles. The horse-drawn coach took two days (including 1-1/2 hours to change teams every 20-25 miles). The EV took four days with 9 recharging stops averaging 8 hours. We certainly got a demonstration of 21st century technology and progress — didn't we?