Electric cars in the North Country? There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. Range anxiety is one of the biggest, as there are only a few charging stations and charging takes longer than filling up with fossil fuel (gas, diesel or, in some cases, propane for commercial vehicles).

I wrote about this several months ago and explained that my cure for range anxiety was a plug-in hybrid. This is a car with a small conventional engine and a moderate-size battery, which usually gives us enough juice from the solar array on our barn roof to get around town without the engine coming on. Our Kia Niro gives us about 26 miles on electricity alone.

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