Three main reasons I do drive an EV: 1. electricity is a fifth of the cost of gasoline, 2. it charges while I sleep so I don't spend any time waiting for fueling, and 3. the range is way more than I drive in a day.

Truly, it's #2 that I love the most. Instead of spending hours of my life every year sitting at a gas pump, my car is always fully charged every morning. #1 is cool, too, of course, it costs me $200/year to fuel my EV, where I was spending almost that every month with my last ICEV. #3 is a minimum requirement, of course.

Imagine if someone released a cellphone tomorrow that fully charged in 5 minutes, and last 4 days on a single charge, but you had to go to special charging centers, none of which are within 15-20 mins of your house, and pull out your credit card and pay for the charging each time, all the while breathing in noxious fumes at the charging center.

I suspect only a small fraction of people would opt for that option. It would be the people who are constantly using their phone because they do their work entirely from it for 15-20 hrs a day.

That’s pretty much what the car market should be like. The only reason people throw suspicion at it is because they’ve not experienced the comfort of never having to the gas station and simply waking up to a fully charged car like they do with their phone.

I drive an EV because all three of your points are wrong. Electricity is cheap (I spend about a fifth of what I did on gas), it charges overnight so the charging rate is irrelevant, and I have never even come close to running out of range.

Curious how much both you and sibling pay per kWh

I didn’t realize there was anywhere in the world where electricity is more expensive per mile than gasoline.

$0.13/kWh

In Germany is around 0.50€/kWh or $0.53/kWh

Curious how much you pay. Is it over $0.65 per kWh?

I pay $0.1161 cents per kWh.