The situation I'm describing is any trip for which the potential of waiting an hour (or more, in many cases) at a fast charger is problematic. My car can be nea

The situation I'm describing is any trip for which the potential of waiting an hour (or more, in many cases) at a fast charger is problematic. My car can be nearly empty in my driveway, and it costs me two minutes to fill it up. This means that if I needed to sprint to the state border before it closed (a real-life scenario for several of my coworkers during COVID), I could. Ditto for any other situation where you might be time pressed. A BEV is charged every time you take it out, but it also needs to be, because charging isn't a two minute thing. Like it or not, this affects its utility relative to a standard vehicle, in certain situations. Maybe it's a 1% kind of thing, but again, I'm not convinced that most of us buy cars for the average use case. If we did, SUVs wouldn't be the highest selling segment of the market.