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In many respects, this is a 440-mile road trip into the future. Yet it’s also an escape into the past, through ghost towns and past ancient stores and buckaroo saloons, even crumbling bordellos. erskinetimes reports:

Chris Erskine makes some serious whoopee as he test-drives a Tesla 3 from Reno to Las Vegas.

Wyatt Earp once worked these ornery outposts, and the feisty ethos of the American West still roams the gritty lunar landscape. But suddenly, I was standing next to this brilliant little buggy, locked out of it two hours into our trip, a pit stop we took earlier than needed to sample the charging experience.

The extended pit stop is an issue with electric vehicles. In a traditional car, you could gas up, grab a burger and be gone in 20 minutes; with the EV, a thorough re-charging takes an hour or more.In time, and 200 more miles of desert road, it would seem like something else. First impressions are usually so wrong with me.The scenery, on the other hand, was pure tranquillity.

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