In a show for the series NOVA called Chasing Carbon Zero, reporter Miles O’Brien asked the question about whether the U.S. reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and avoid the biggest impacts of climate change? Experts say it can be done. And he showed the technology that could get us there.

But in a fascinating final segment which begins at 43:54 of the show, Miles gives the viewer a glimpse of what it was like to drive from Massachusetts to Orono, Maine and back in a Ford Lightning electric vehicle.

You can view the show by clicking on the image above or going to https://player.pbs.org/viralplayer/3079263756/.

Spoiler alert, it’s a range anxiety sufferers worst nightmare. And second spoiler alert: the full transcript of that segment is below:

O’BRIEN: Many of the technologies to get us to net-zero emissions by 2050 are already here, and many more are well along in their development. But as I discovered on the road with the Ford Lightning, there are still some speed bumps left to navigate.

The technology’s existence is only half the battle. You have to strategize when you’re doing a long trip with an electric vehicle. It makes you think a little more about your trip than you would otherwise.

Ford loaned me the truck for a weeklong test drive. Producer Will Toubman and I decided to stress-test the E.V. charging network, so we drove the Lightning from the Boston area to Orono, Maine, to film that floating wind turbine prototype.

Ford promotes the truck as a backup power supply at home. But on the road, getting electricity into the vehicle quickly can be a challenge.

We are headed for Portland, which will get us there right around 6:00 p.m. Good time to get a bite. There’s a fast charger there. We slogged through some traffic, arrived at the fast charger, plugged in, and went to dinner. Returned 90 minutes later. The fast charger was set to turn off after one hour. We needed more than an hour. As it turns out, we currently have 123 miles of range and we have 133 miles to go. We re-upped, plugged in, and waited: a watched pot of electrons. We’ve been charging now for 30 minutes. We have increased our range by 33 miles. So about a mile a minute. Nothing fast about this fast charger. A dozen unused Tesla superchargers across the lot, incompatible with the Lightning, seemed to gloat in silence.

We resumed our journey with a promise of 153 miles of range. A few hours and 133 miles later, we arrived at the only fast charger I could find in Bangor, at a car dealership. This could be it. It was about 11:00 p.m., we had only about 20 miles of range remaining, and we were in no mood for this. Okay, so it says cash only. It’s the right kind of charger. Let’s see if I put a card in the mix here, if it will do anything for me. “Swipe error.” Oh, boy. So, uh… I think we’re seeing the problem here, aren’t we?

Plan B: a charger at another car dealership nearby. So, let’s pull in, see what this looks like. Oh, no. “Not in service.” Come on. Looks like it’s brand-new or something. Supposedly there was another one here. Supposedly. And it too is, looks like it’s brand-new and still not online. So we’ve got two chargers coming to a dealership near you soon. Again, not much help to us now with 18 miles of range at 11:23 at night.

Plan C: a slow charger a few miles away at a Maine Department of Transportation maintenance yard. Hopefully this thing works. Pop this bad boy in. And let’s make sure we’re charging. Yes, we are. We are charging. (chuckles)

We stopped to charge eight times. The nearly 500-mile round trip took twice as long as it would have in an internal combustion vehicle. And there were a lot of mental gymnastics. (echoing): 13 miles per hour… Ten hours or so… 46 kilowatts… It will be 90% full… 30 miles and change of range… 19 kilowatt-hours…

I feel like we’ve learned about nine lessons in the last 24 hours about how not to do this.

Since 2010, Americans have bought about three-and-a-quarter million plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles. The government goal by 2030: half of new cars sold will be electric. So, the charging infrastructure will need to grow fast to keep up.

Across the country right now, there are more than 130,000 publicly available E.V. chargers. The 2030 goal: a half-million public chargers, a nearly fourfold increase. Engineers and entrepreneurs are seeing opportunities.

We found one company that is installing chargers on utility poles, just one clean-tech innovation amid thousands that are bubbling up with possible solutions. CHIANG: These are all entirely new industries that are being created. And, you know, investors want to be part of this new industrial revolution, as it were– the Green Industrial Revolution.

O’BRIEN: A green industrial revolution: it’s a reminder that this is how we evolve.