I swear, no one ever really wants to read/piece together all that we, actual EV owners, type here, which is clearly intentional. I’ll try again with details really spelled out…
• At the point I might need to charge, I need to pee and eat (and my gf or 10 yo daughter definitely wanted to stop long before that)
• This means a minimum of 30 min. of time is needed, just like when I had an ICE car
• During that 30 min., supercharging can add 80% charge, more than enough to get me home or to a destination where I can charge again overnight
• All those times I’m sleeping while my car “fills up” to handle my daily commuting (which accounts for 99.9% of my charging), I am erasing hundreds of 5-10 min stops you MUST make
• So in the final analysis, who is spending the most time actually present, waiting, at the pump/outlet?
When talking about a car used for a daily commute or short trips, then range is entirely irrelevant. Nobody with access to home charging cares. It's only for longer road trips where range is an issue, or when one cannot charge at home.
Even when my 3 kids were young, our gas/pee stops were almost always 15 minutes or less on most road trip stops. Now and then, we'd hit a line at the pump, but the rest of the family would be off using the bathroom and/or grabbing a snack while I get gas. And the lines move fast because most cars don't take very long to fill up. So the stop might get extended to 20 minutes due to the line. Only very rarely would we stop any longer.
Some people travel and enjoy stopping and chilling out for a while. That was never us. We were very destination-focused.
The real problem today is that EV charging port quantity doesn't come close to matching gas pump numbers. And
if public EV charging infrastructure doesn't improve at a pace matching that of EV adoption, then it will become more likely that there will be lines of EVs waiting for a charge. People like to argue that they don't need to fully charge, but that's like saying we don't have to fill up our gas tanks and for long road trips - neither comment makes any sense in the context of a long road trip.
There can be lines for gas pumps and for EV charging ports. The critical difference is how long it takes for those lines to move, and how long those lines get due to the relative numbers of "ports" versus the relative numbers of vehicles. There's no knowing what that math will be because we won't know, for sure, what the EV adoption rate versus the EV charging port build rates will wind up being.
Presumably, with time, this won't be so much of a problem. Enough EV charging ports will be available (one hopes). Then it's just about how long it takes to fully charge up.
