All of this talk of having to stop for gas instead of charging passively at each place you go sounds really strange.
I really like EV’s, but the longer stop times for when you do need to recharge a bit when you’re out are reasonable balanced against faster gas station stops especially outside of higher density infrastructure suburban/urban areas. The above sorts of comments ring in my ears along these lines:
“Oh that 7 minutes of checking my email while I refill my tank was horrible. Leaving the house so much earlier if I hadn’t done it the day before was truly oppressive. And these days I luxuriate in those rare gifted 20 minutes of leisure when I choose to recharge my battery while on the go!”
The range-recharge vs. gas station stops argument really seems pretty evenly balanced unless you don’t live where there is much charging infrastructure.
Personally, my dream balance would be something that could go 50 miles on a charge but had an ICE tank that could take me 150-200 miles. That EV capacity would cover 95% of driving, and for most people I know without long commutes, and the other 5% would just mean I had to fuel up on both ends of a 3-4 hour drive instead of just once. Or every 3-4 hours instead of 6-8 of the extremely rare longer drives. Also for those, I’d have the 50mile EV range as backup for running out of gas, not to mention a massive mobile power bank to keep heat & phone battery going if I had a breakdown somewhere.