Costa Rica's answer to range anxiety

[hunter]

On the road to Monteverde, Costa Rica, a mountain town nestled in an otherworldly cloud forest, the restaurant El Sol sits on a cliff's edge, the last stop before a steep, uphill drive of misty vistas and hairpin turns. It looks like a traditional soda, a roadside restaurant serving casados (rice next to beans), mashed plantains, and fresh juices. Except it also has a silver cylinder with green lettering in the parking lot, the area's first electric vehicle (EV) charging station.

"It's like smart phones," says Minor Oliverio, El Sol's owner. "Eventually everyone will have electric chargers and vehicles. But someone has to be first."

The station is part of Monteverde's Ruta Eléctrica, Latin America's only grassroots charging network created to head off "range anxiety" – the worry that a vehicle won't have enough charge to reach its destination – and develop electric-vehicle-friendly communities outside of cities.

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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210928-costa-ricas-answer-to-range-anxiety

It's pretty easy to imagine an informal collaboration between car rental companies, hotels, and tourist destinations.

You rent an electric car at the airport, park it at a hotel with a charger, visit places that have chargers...

[LakeArenal]

1. There is s charger at the pharmacy in Nuevo Arenal

That’s a fairly small town.

[StClone]

2. Many a soda will have them.