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If you drive 100k miles, the fuel cost difference is only 12k. Even then it is questionable if opportunity cost of time spend in charging, house charger installation, higher insurance cost, higher initial price, and lower re-sell value would be paid by cheaper fuel.

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You don’t have to buy a new EVSE every time you buy a car. It’s a one time cost that’s subsidized in a lot of regions.

You don't spend time charging if you use home charging infrastructure.

Most people in Europe live in dense cities with no personal park space, rural folks can't afford evs in the first place. The world isn't solely composed of tech workers remotely working from their fancy garage equipped houses

EV's were never about replacing ICE cars with something equally or more useful, it was always about forcing everyone out of cars.

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