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This is the thing so many ICE drivers get hung up on. They always talk about how quickly they can fill up and leave. But they ignore that you don't need to even go to a public charger like that most of the time if you charge at home. If you can't charge at home that's a different issue.
I only need to think of charging when traveling, and even then the car will automatically fill in charging stops asking the route at optimal points for the fastest charging. For healthy driving habits you should be getting out of the car regularly both for a mental break and to get up and get blood moving. Stopping to charge while you use the restroom and grab some food often takes more time than people think. I've come back to the car and only had to wait like 5 minutes most of the time, sometimes it's even already got enough charge when I get back.
Even if you can't charge at home, you could charge it when you are buying all these sofas and fridges people keep telling me I need to buy a car or SUV to transport.
Every time someone mentions something like that, I just ask them if they use their truck to haul something more than once a month. You can rent a pickup truck from Uhaul for a day for $20. Some Home Depot and Lowe's locations also offer truck rentals. Unless you're using that truck to haul something at least weekly, it doesn't really make sense to drive that gas guzzler all the time compared to basically anything else.
We need utes to come back as small electric vehicles. The slate truck is a move in the right direction, but I also want a lower profile version like an el camino layout which could get better mileage at speed with a very low and accessible bed. Heck, something slightly larger than a BRAT would be neat for doing the small scale stuff where washing out a bed is preferable to having stinky stuff in a hatchback.
Absolutely, in the 10 months we've had the car we've literally only charged away from home less than 10 times. Because almost all of our trips can be done on 1 charge.
And charging at home is both super convenient and super cheap.