When would you need fast charging at home?
On a typical day, my wife does about 40km, so everything is fine, but twice a week I have to go to the music school with my kids and it's 60km away (120km round trip), so I have to be sure to be on a full charge before leaving as I cannot charge the car there, and the time I have to charge the car before leaving is about 2h.
And this is for one car, I also have a car for my business. I didn't plan to switch to electric yet, but I know I'll have too, thus the 22kW charging station to have some margin to be able to charge them both.
Also, the utility have to upgrade the cables even for 11kW, and the price isn't very different.
The car I tested is a Toyota Proace.
Remote areas with unpredictable usage is probably their weak spot, but a hybrid should still be a solid option for the same reasons EVs work well in the mountains.
How about super inefficient work on low revolutions per second mode which is typical for going uphill? And can you really produce any significant measure of energy using recuperation?
If you don't have many kids, you should probably look at cars that are only electric and designed for it: Tesla, Polestar, VW ID.3/4, Skoda Enyaq, Volva XC40 Recharge, ... You'll get better regenerative break which means that you'll recharge your battery when going downhill and better efficiency.
Without any changes to your home, you can charge your car at 3.6kW and there might be public chargers at 11kW around where you live and shop. I've spent a few weeks with a Tesla Model 3 SR+ (50kW battery) in the mountains of the Val d'Anniviers (Valais) where I couldn't charge at the chalet and I didn't have any issue to drive around and find chargers.
Definitely inefficient. My 2017 leaf with a 24kWh battery can do ~120km before it starts reducing output (20% limit).
> In most peoples eyes, paying that much for a used electric with a 7 year old battery is insane.
Obviously not in the eyes of the people who are part of that market or the price would be lower. But I get your point.
Nonetheless there are quite a few brand new EVs available at that price and lower. Even in 2021 there were about 15 EV models available in the US at less than that brand new, see https://insideevs.com/news/534027/electric-car-prices-us-202...