Yeah but you're at a gas station for that stop (and you had to drive there). Charging an EV at home at night involves approximately 10 seconds to plug the car in followed by going inside, eating dinner, watching tv, going to sleep etc just like you would have without the EV.
Unless the average needed charge time is more than the average gap you have between "come home" and "go out again" it's a meaningless number.
As someone who owns an EV and doesn't regularly drive more than ~200km in a single trip the EV is much more convenient than my old ICE. "Oh no I need to stop off at the petrol station before/after work" used to be a fairly regular occurence and now it's something I never think about.
What about apartment dwellers? They can't just plug in their cars at night. They'll need to go to a charge station. Now we're comparing a 5 min fill up to a 1 hour charge.
I agree for me as a home owner the charge station question is no big deal, but when I was doing apartment living it's a completely different consideration.
> Yeah but you're at a gas station for that stop (and you had to drive there).
Uhhhh, you mean an extremely brief stop along a common route I was already traversing anyway?
I really don't understand your approach here, are you speaking from the perspective of some region where gas-stations are rare remote outposts that require a dedicated trip?
I'm not arguing that gas stations are horribly inconvenient or anything like that. I'm just pointing out that with EVs you don't have to do anything at all.
We're quibbling over very small amounts of inconvenience with either option.
That is just not true. Planning a handful of longer trips a year require much more planning than dropping by a gas station for 5 minutes every few weeks.
Unless the average needed charge time is more than the average gap you have between "come home" and "go out again" it's a meaningless number.
As someone who owns an EV and doesn't regularly drive more than ~200km in a single trip the EV is much more convenient than my old ICE. "Oh no I need to stop off at the petrol station before/after work" used to be a fairly regular occurence and now it's something I never think about.