If you’re looking for a nice, dark place to see the stars at night in all of their glory, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better place than Big Bend National Park. Being far from not only cities, but even a ways from all but the smallest towns, there’s just not that much light pollution to ruin the view. So, the park has about the darkest skies you can find in the United States.
This started to change when Tesla’s Supercharger station in Alpine, Texas, went online on January 18th. This meant that the route in through Terlingua was now only about 100 miles from the nearest DC fast charger. Even better, it’s a new V3 station that will soon be open to nearly all EVs with an adapter, so the park is going to be even more accessible to everyone traveling under electric power.
This will make it a drive of only about 50–60 miles to go from the nearest charger all the way across the park, putting the whole park well within a round-trip reach of the charging network, even for most EVs with less range. You’d probably still want to do some planning for long drives across and around the park, but for people staying multiple nights in the area, being able to pop out and get a charge and go back in is still very helpful.
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