Electric Car Running Flat? The AAA Has You CoveredElectric Car Running Flat? The AAA Has You Covered

You want to drive an all-electric car, but you’ve got range anxiety: the fear that you’ll run out of charge in the middle of no where, miles away from the nearest charging station. 
Now there’s a solution that lets you drive an all-electric car and know you’ll not get stranded without hope. 
Enter the AAA. Last year, in select parts of California and Oregon and four other states, it started testing roadside assistance for rapid charging of electric cars whose owners were stranded because their car ran out of charge. 
If you’re lucky, the chances are you’ll never see the specially-designed assistance truck, because you won’t run out of charge. 
Which is probably why the AAA has announced a demonstration morning at Portland State University’s Electric Avenue this week in order to show electric car drivers how its recovery truck works. 
AAA’s Mobile Electric Vehicle Charging truck
“We’ll demonstrate the truck’s charging capabilities on a Nissan Leaf and have experts on hand who can explain how the truck works and answer your questions,” AAA spokeswoman Marie Dodds told OregonLive.com.
Fitted out with AAA livery and driven by specially-trained operatives, the assistance trucks look like any other breakdown truck. 
What makes them different however, is the large charging station mounted behind the driver’s cab. 
Capable of providing either a level 2, 240-volt charge or direct- current fast charging, the units are designed to give stranded electric cars a 15 minute top-up charge. 
Depending on the car and its charging specifications, those 15 minutes should provide up to 15 miles of range. 
Rather than being a one-trick pony, the AAA is keen to emphasize that the specialist mobile electric car charging roadside assistance vehicles will be able to carry out other repair work too, including tire repair and work on conventional gasoline vehicles. 
If you live in Portland, but don’t want to run out of charge to see the AAA’s latest weapon against range anxiety, the demonstration will take place on Friday, August 3 between 9am and 11am an Southwest Montgomery Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. 
Is the new AAA service a worthwhile one? Would you join the AAA just for this service?
And would knowing it existed help you make the decision to buy an all-electric car instead of a plug-in hybrid? 
Let us know in the Comments below. 
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