I drive a lot, and I’ve ran into a situation only once where I had to find a charging station away from home. It just doesn’t happen nearly as often as people worry.
• DC fast chargers can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes.
Do you have a low electricity rate?
A petrol car would use around 0.03 gallons per mile (33 mpg). At $ 4 per gallon that's $ 0.12 per mile.
A Tesla model S does around 0.3 kWh per mile. So to get to the same cost per mile your electricity price would have to be below $ 0.40 per kwh.
In a lot of places electricity isn't (much) below $ 0.40 per kwh.
ref: https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/averageenergyprices...
$0.40/kwh is an absurd embarrassment for the local government. Move or vote them out.
Where in the world is this?!
Here in my corner of Silicon Valley, electricity is never below that price! Thanks PG&E.
Off-peak rate (starts at midnight) is 44.2 c/kWh which is as cheap as it gets.
(Peak rate in the afternoon after 3pm is 71.3 c/kWhw)