So to preserve battery health I need to spend 8 hours charging the battery at opposed to 45 minutes? Not a great selling point for EVs.
Depends on how you look at it ( and your circumstances ). I plug in at night and wake up to a fully charged, defrosted and pre-heated car.
Whether it took 45 minutes or 8 hours doesn’t matter, and not having to visit a petrol station once a week to pay 4x the cost is something I see as being a good selling point.
If we consider an ICE car’s fuel as a “component”, then it’s an interesting comparison: fuel is basically maximally degraded - it accumulates as much “wear” as possible - and then it’s jettisoned so what remains attached to the vehicle is comparatively less worn.