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  • I Took America’s Cheapest EV Into the Charging Desert of the Deep South

    10/22/2026 7:21:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 44 replies
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 22, 2026 9:00 pm ET | Christopher Mims
    Readers challenged our columnist to take an affordable electric car on a route with less-than-ideal charging options. Here’s what happened. I’ve spent a few years torture-testing fancy new electric vehicles on 1,000+ mile journeys to unlikely locations, from mountains to Montréal, to see if they’re suitable for the Great American Road Trip. And they were.So readers challenged me to do something trickier: take a more modest electric car on the least EV-friendly route I could find.I took a 2027 Chevy Bolt—America’s most affordable EV—on a trip from Nashville to New Orleans, through several U.S. states with the fewest public EV...