Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me that the fact that you need an extra coffee break whenever you drive for more than 4-5 hours at a time is ostensibly such a huge inconvenience, but somehow the fact that you never need to go to a gas station at any other time doesn't matter.

In the real world, I've never met an EV owner who didn't prefer it to a gas-guzzler, so I'm somewhat skeptical of the number of people on social media who claim to have returned theirs.

Not downvoting personally. But the charging situation on the ground in Texas is hit or miss. If you’re along major interstates and major metropolitan areas you’re fine. You might have to wait for an hour for an open spot but you’ll get charged eventually.

But once you start going to many of the smaller cities you have to start taking longer routes to get to chargers and make weird detours and backtrack from chargers to get to your route.

Same with many tourist destinations outside the major cities.

Friends that tried to go pure EV and didn’t live their lives entirely in one city have inevitably had to buy a second gas car or truck. Because those “occasional” issues show up a lot in Texas.

My personal main concern is the emergency situations where the grid is down or there are mass evacuations. After hurricanes entire highly populated of the state can be without power for weeks. The area I live in now to be near my ailing parents regularly has power issues. I can bring in gas from outside the area to last a while but I can’t bring in a high voltage source.