Read the car magazines and talk to people that own an EV. The car magazines and the people I know are glued to their screens the whole trip to make sure they can get to a charging station within the range they can go. I would hate that!
Also, my friends have said they get to charging station after a long stint and they might be the 3rd or 4th in line. So it’s going to be a couple hours of charging. Also, friends on the west coast have said that a lot of the charging stations are damaged and you can not know that until you get there. A family member of ours has a gasoline car and their close friend has an EV, every long trip their friend takes they ask to trade cars because they don’t like stopping every couple hundred miles.
A couple of things that turn me off: what happens when an EV stops running because they run out of power, you didn’t make it to the charging station? Do they have a roaming semi with a charging station on it to charge the EV? In a gas car, most gas stations will loan you a gallon container to add gas to get you to the gas station.
How many local dealers/mechanics will work on your EV? How many local mechanics will work on your gas car? All of them!
Our friends thought about coming down to visit us in their EV and they thought they could charge their EV overnight at the hotel: no charging stations!
When the number of charging stations equals or is higher than the number of gas stations; when you can get 500 miles per charge, and the time it takes to get a full charge equals the time it takes to fill your tank with gas; all at the same price of a gas car, I’ll look at buying an EV so in 20-30 years I might be buying 1
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