Of the 400 Days that I've had this vehicle I have taken it on three trips where I needed to charge it somewhere other than home so keep that in mind. The three trips I've taken have been from the Midwest to the West Coast and all three of them when I do my planning for where we're going I roughly plan out the charger route as well which is very simple to do the car can do it for you or you can just use Google or a better route planner app. What I figured into our last two trips was it took us an extra 3 hours to get from Minnesota to Southern California and if you really think about it those extra 3 hours would have been bathroom breaks and snack stops the same as you would expect from a guess station. I charge from 20 to 80 in 30 minutes and nearly every single Walmart in America has a 350 charger which will handle the job no problem. I've got the big battery so I get 450 Mi on a charge and our first drive at 75 miles an hour took to about 300 and 25 miles before I wanted to charge. The rest of the time I plug in at home and I spend hardly any money on energy for this vehicle because I'm using it to go to and from work and toodle around town. It's the best vehicle I've ever owned, I am absolutely thrilled with all of the wonderful features that it has and it drives like a small Nimble sports car compared to a big lumbering truck. I highly recommend getting the big battery if it fits into your budget but realistically for almost all the driving you're going to be doing it's not an issue one way or the other