Unlike gas cars, you start off with 200 miles of range EVERY MORNING since you charge overnight. Most Americans also only drive an average of 40 miles a day. And for those long trips, you have Superchargers.
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200 supercharger stations worldwide, but that's not counting electric vehicle charging stations, plus the station in your driveway. All gas stations are further away than the tesla station in the garage.
Yes, the cost of the vehicle includes the cost of building supercharger stations, but then again, the cost of gas includes the cost of building stations too, so maybe a bad comparison.
I see where you are going with your arguments, however they don't all apply. I think the most valid thing you said is perhaps the line ups, but again I can't comment on that, not to mention gas stations have line ups... so there's that.
1) Superchargers aren't geographically positioned for daily routines, but rather strategically located between major cities across the country for long range trips.
2) There's a lot more places to charge than Tesla's 200 Superchargers. U.S. Department of Energy currently states that there are ~10k public charging stations ( http://www.afdc.energy.gov/locator/stations/?fuel=ELEC ). This also doesn't even count the many private chargers on commercial property provided by employers to their employees. (ChargePoint's commercial network has 20k stations as well.)
3) Most people will charge at home and start with 200 miles of range each day vs. filling up a 350 mile range gas tank once a week.
4) The cost to install a charger isn't excessive: my parents spent about $600 to get an 80 amp breaker outfitted into their 25 year old home. The work was complete in a half day. (When they visit my home, they were able to plug directly into my 240V dryer outlet to recharge.) Even with the cost of install + cost of electric factored in, it's still 3-4x cheaper to travel the same number of miles on gas each year.
>What should I do if all Supercharger stalls are occupied when I arrive? Check to see if current users have left contact information on their dashboard and give them a call. Most customers charge for 20 to 40 minutes.
I can only ask: why would you bother recharging at 3/4 of a charge? I've literally never in my life stopped to top off my tank at 3/4 of a tank of gasoline.
As someone who doesn't have power to his 1927 garage, this would represent a pretty huge cost for me and was a major reason for my choosing the hybrid Fusion over the Energi plug-in.
I mean you just plop out "you charge overnight" as if it happens by magic. Someone has to come and install that appliance. And it's gonna cost money, perhaps a significant amount of it.