I spend hours a year more waiting for gas pumps for my ICE than I spend waiting on my EV to charge. And I put way more miles on my EV than my ICE.
My point still stands. Despite driving more miles on my EV my ICE wastes my time on pumping gas especially before all the time I waste with routine maintenance. I am far from alone.
Why would anyone waste their time going to gas stations all the time and wait for oil changes and have to deal with all that maintenance of things like timing belts and what not?
You'll spend considerably more of your life standing next to a gas pump than they spend waiting for their cars to charge. And you'll spend more money per mile in the end for the energy cost. And yet somehow you'll continue to feel superior about it. Congrats on spending so much of your life pumping gas my dude. I'm glad I don't have to spend nearly as much time anymore.
If you can't do that then, yes, an EV is less convenient than a gas car that is true.
Gas is unfortunately going to be around for a long, long time for normal working-class Americans.
Many people my age own their homes around me. They work in HR, they work in finance, they work in construction, they work as insurance sales.
The median home price for a lot areas around me is ~$500k. Meaning there's also a lot of homes <$500k. And I'm in one of the largest metro areas in the country with a bus stop right outside my door, so it's not like I'm in the sticks.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
2000Q1: 67.1%
2024Q3: 65.6%
Go back even further to 1990Q1, and it was 64%. It had a peak of 69.2% in 2004Q4. In the 80s it was pretty much 63-64%.
Get out of California.
They were expensive, but well designed and durable, yet ... who wants to pay in time and money to develop film every 36 pictures?
I think some really good gas cars only make sense if you use them infrequently to haul heavy things or lots of passengers.
Otherwise it is getting cheaper to run an EV - you might even charge it with electricity you capture yourself.