People draw a lot of scary conclusions based on what they know about bad EV choices. It all depends on what car you choose. With Teslas at least, you don’t si

People draw a lot of scary conclusions based on what they know about bad EV choices. It all depends on what car you choose. With Teslas at least, you don’t sit for an hour, since they have fast chargers all over the place. In other cars, yes. Some of our charges are 5-10 minutes. On a road trip most are 20-30 minutes. The longest charge is if you need to get to a place that is near the edge of your range, which is exceedingly rare, even on long road trips. In those highly unusual cases you might have to charge for 45-50 minutes for that one leg of the trip, if you didn’t arrive with half a charge already. Again this is with a supercharger. Other cars… yes, scary charge times. (You will hear about how some cars… Porsche… can charge at a faster rate, but the chargers to support this are rare, so their fast rate is often not possible and they are stuck at a slow charger for hours.) Also with other cars you are sitting there alone often at a single plug station. With Tesla chargers you are generally not alone, you are with other Tesla owners who have your back if anything suspicious starts happening around the area.