If you forget to charge overnight you're stuck waiting. If you forget to get gas, you can just go get gas and be on your way in a few minutes

• BEVs need to be plugged in about once a week (for a median US commute). If you forget one day, you can plug in another day, or day after.

• DC fast chargers can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes.

> and paying a lot more for it

Do you have a low electricity rate?

A petrol car would use around 0.03 gallons per mile (33 mpg). At $ 4 per gallon that's $ 0.12 per mile.

A Tesla model S does around 0.3 kWh per mile. So to get to the same cost per mile your electricity price would have to be below $ 0.40 per kwh.

In a lot of places electricity isn't (much) below $ 0.40 per kwh.

Nearly everywhere in the US is below $0.40/kWh. The average nationwide is $0.17/kWh. Only a handful of cities in California and Hawaii are over $0.40 (those places have the highest gas prices too). Most people will pay less than half as much to charge at home.

ref: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...

My overnight rate is $0.02/kwh

$0.40/kwh is an absurd embarrassment for the local government. Move or vote them out.

> My overnight rate is $0.02/kwh

Where in the world is this?!

East Coast USA.

> In a lot of places electricity isn't (much) below $ 0.40 per kwh.

Here in my corner of Silicon Valley, electricity is never below that price! Thanks PG&E.

Off-peak rate (starts at midnight) is 44.2 c/kWh which is as cheap as it gets.

(Peak rate in the afternoon after 3pm is 71.3 c/kWhw)