As many of have said, EVs work well for people with relatively short commutes who can charge at home. For that group of owners, the cost of charging at a Supercharger doesn't matter very much because we almost never charge there.
My Tesla Model 3 gets 3 or maybe 4 mph @ 115V. It gets 40+ at 240V.
It's what people understand.
It's the only reason I would consider it. I'd have a hard time justifying it otherwise and my other car is a car that requires premium and gets 35mpg. That combination would keep both close in cost if only public charging was used with the rates I've seen for Superchargers.
When I had my Sonata, I ran it down past E one time to see how far I could get on a tank. I remember it being somewhere in the 400-500 range, and I took a pic, but I can't find it now. Regardless, that's the only time in the last 20-25 years I intentionally took an ICE vehicle that low.
I know we've discussed this, but understanding kWh is no more challenging than understanding litres or gallons. "Forest Gump"ing it by trying to shoehorn in a term that's inherently a variable in this calculus and trying to employ it as as static measure is utterly moronic and there's no way my mind will be changed on that. It's like trying to measure hard drive space in JPEG's or room volume in dogs.
That's a judgement that people have to make. In our household, we have not used DCFC since a trip to DFW in July, and the savings on normal around town driving far outweigh any additional costs from the 450-500 miles we put on going to the Metroplex and back.
There are no road etc taxes on electricity,,yet. Look at the taxes on a gallon of gas.
The difference is, Joe SixPack has used liquid measure all his life.
I pay for that on annual CA registration. Should be on mileage, similar to gasoline.
Unless we start building nuclear like we mean it (and not to serve private data centers), we can bet on these facts:
Right, but you never grew up having to use it as a unit of measure in every day life, people driving an EV should be, and our kids should be taught it so that they understand it. A half state of charge, is, as you noted, the same as half a tank of gas, it's an indication of how much is "in the tank" and how far you can go on it will depend on what you plan on doing, we do that in our heads, understanding, inherently that the volume that constitutes a half tank applies to different distances able to be traveled depending on usage profile, ambient conditions and other variables, which is the same with the state of charge.
Actually it does extend your OCI from a mileage perspective. Presently I am 11k miles into an OCI but ICE miles account less than a third of that. 20k miles in my use case might mean 6500 miles on the oil at most.
It's not time wasted if you happen to be sleeping at the time.
That's why you buy a Tesla. In my experience all units at all Superchargers work (the exception - one unit at one 8 unit station wasn't working on a Sunday afternoon, but there was another 8 unit Supercharger within sight). I've never had to wait. And you just plug in and your car charges. Simple as that. Tesla sends you a bill at the end of the month.
