Explosion Fears, Hostile Strangers and Other Hazards of a 1,600-Mile Tesla Journey

By Lisa Cohn

Before I drove my new Tesla from Portland, Ore. to Whitefish Montana, I tried to travel in a Volkswagen e-Golf.

I impulsively leased a Volkswagen e-Golf in 2015 after learning that leases were going for low rates.

The modest and zippy e-Golf, it turned out, …