The ‘loneliest road in America’ is getting a major upgrade: ‘It feels like the country is at, or about to be at, full coverage’

The days of “range anxiety” for electric vehicle drivers appear to be behind us, as charging stations are popping up everywhere, even in the places where you’d least expect to see them.

A new story in Bloomberg details the efforts to bring EV chargers to Route 50, also known as the “Loneliest Road in America.”

Having been given its nickname by a 1986 article in Life magazine, which described Route 50 (at least in Nevada) as having “no points of interest,” the “Loneliest Road in America” now has several points of interest for environmentally conscious drivers — namely, charging stations that allow them to travel its entire span from Sacramento, California, to Ocean City, Maryland (though two stretches in the Midwest remain a bit tricky, according to Bloomberg).

The arrival of an EV charging network on Route 50 signals how expansive the overall network in the United States has become. Thanks to a robust federal funding project that has promised over $900 million in funds for new EV charging stations across the country, taking worry-free road trips in your EV is becoming more feasible than ever.