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I get what you're saying and I'm not planning on going back to ICE personally but a couple years ago, when I talked to people about it, I'd say, "Yeah it's not
by parineum 3y ago
I get what you're saying and I'm not planning on going back to ICE personally but a couple years ago, when I talked to people about it, I'd say, "Yeah it's not as easy but I don't need to charge away from home very often and, when I do, it's not too bad. Plus, some of the cars that are coming out in the future charge much faster."
Now, I can't really say that because it's not nearly as easy to charge away from home now and it can significantly extend your trip times.
I regularly (something close to annually) drive a two day, 1000 mile road trip. The last time I did it was where I encountered this. The way the trip works out as planned is a 10 hour day and an 8 hour day, including charging. More than an hour extra was added both ways in waiting times. That extra time was purely spent waiting for chargers.
I've also had time where I was unable to charge my car at home or just had a particularly busy day where I needed to charge locally. There are 3 fast chargers equidistant to me but all in different directions. I ended up waiting 45 minutes.
The problem is that you can't just go a few blocks away (if not across the street!) to the next station if they are full like with gas stations, you're pretty much stuck waiting where you've gambled on stopping.
I'm not going to recommend my dad deal with that.