The American West is known for its wide open spaces.

That can make for some pretty epic road trips -- unless you have an electric vehicle and you’re stuck hours away from a charge….

Sales of E-Vs are climbing and some forecasters predict half of the vehicles sold worldwide will be electric by 2040.

But, in present day, a lack of charging stations is still holding back this transportation revolution.

Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce reports on an agreement between Western states to try and calm so-called “range anxiety.”