Oddly Satisfying

Mine charges overnight while it's just sitting on the driveway, I plug it in then forget about it until morning.

On the rare occasion I've needed to charge up away from home, I park it at a fast charger then go and have a coffee or something. By the time I've had my coffee, it's easily full enough to continue. My in-car nav just routes me via charging stations when they're necessary, no thinking required. But, to be fair, our uses cases seem different, I can probably count the number of times I've had to drive more than a hundred miles in one day on one finger.

Well, the cool thing in the modern age is that there are far mare charging places now than there ever have been, so FAR less concern about being stranded.

I never have an issue finding chargers, even on cross country road trips. There are still a handful of extremely low population, isolated places in the US that don't have enough chargers, but it's not an issue today in the overwhelming majority of the country. A little bit of research (including the free EV route planning site A Better Route Planner) will tell you what's going on with Level 3 (fastest) chargers on the routes you drive.

And also, road trips are the only place I'm ever waiting on my car to charge anyway. And it's 20 minutes every 250 miles or so. Not a big deal, I had to use the restroom by then and grab a drink or a snack regardless.

99% of the time I'm charging my car, I'm not waiting on it. I have a cheap slow charger at work that can fill my entire battery (again, approx 250 miles of driving range) for about 6 bucks, while I'm busy in the office anyway. The once a week I need to charge, I plug it in when I get there, work my day, unplug it, and drive home. Other people with houses tend to just charge their cars on cheap night-rate power there overnight.

So I definitely encourage you to look into it! If fuel costs get to be too much, a cheaper used EV can definitely be an escape hatch for probably 90%+ of people.