> Over a 5-10 year period, EVs currently pay for themselves in saved money on gasoline. I don't know how else to put this, but that's flat out false. Looking a

> Over a 5-10 year period, EVs currently pay for themselves in saved money on gasoline. I don't know how else to put this, but that's flat out false. Looking at my miles driven over the past month, 10 years of savings won't even get me half of the value of a Chevy Bolt. > Crossing the Mojave seems easy enough to me. LA to Vegas is trivial, since it's a major corridor for tourism. Driving around Nevada is not. Vegas to Great Basin National Park (4.5 hours one way) and back only recently became possible* since Tesla released their CCS1 adapter. Unfortunately, the EV chargers that the state of Nevada has subsidized are only 50kW, which means 4.5 hours of driving requires 1h50m of charging. * You could do it before if you drove below the speed limit to reduce aerodynamic drag, but you had to drive way out of the way through Utah, desperately hope that you don't consume more power than predicted, and probably get shot by angry drivers.