Strictly depeds on the charger. Where I live, the vast majority of chargers are slow chargers, and all fast ones are usually occupied.
Depends on the charger and the car. Ionity's chargers are 350 kW:
https://ionity.eu/en/design-and-tech.html
And, for example, cars on Hyundai's E-GMP platform (currently Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, and Genesis GV60) can charge 10 to 80% in 18 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J46mG7I78Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqcqy29ZCc
The Kia EV6's WLTP range is 528km so 80% of that is 422km. If we say the real world highway range is more like 400km then 80% would be 320 km.
And their availability is?
Here are examples of some of the best charging stations in Europe and the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TVohXHjLro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2shbCwDYM
Funny. When I drive a regular car, gas stations are available all the time, at short notice. With a throughput of possibly hundreds of cars an hour.
Fuel shortage: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/business/fuel-shortage-uk...
Fuel shortage: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59059093
Fuel shortage: https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/canadian-province-exten...
Fuel shortage: https://www.ibtimes.com/diesel-shortage-amid-soaring-prices-...
Things are tough all over in the real world.
Yup
> Fuel shortage
Ah yes. Extraordinary short-term events affecting only some regions vs. chronic shortage of available fast chargers pretty much everywhere.
Yup, same thing.
You picked the conditions of the contest, son. You claimed "available to anyone at any time at short notice".
You were straight up wrong. Deal with it.
This all started with a discussion of a long trip. The reality is that, at best, EVs require you to do very careful planning with potentially lengthy breaks regardless of "excellent coverage" and exuberant youtube ads of "best charging stations".
Look, if you're too afraid to think about EVs now then the best advice is not to worry about it. Live in the happy tail as a late adopter. By then all the decisions will have been made for you and you won't have to think.
Ah yes. "Son", "deal with it", "afraid to think about EVs", a couple of Youtube vidoes. The grand arguments of a person who pretends they have any arguments.
No one is "afraid to think about EVs". Those who actually think about EVs see what they are, and all the problems they have right now. Good luck to early adopters, come back when you have more arguments than those listed above.
EVs are here now, they work, and they're getting better year by year. No amount of whining from you will change that.
Add extra weight (luggage) or anything external (skis/snowboard on the roof rack), and boom, your effective range in an electric vehicle has gone down by a factor of 1.5 or more