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by jhoechtl 1241 days ago
You get 250 mileage? Seems like a draw with a diesel car
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Commercial fast charging as your only fueling option is definitely not the best way to use an EV. 4 cents per kWh at 10pm is the way. Instead of a device that you monitor the tank fill status on a day to day basis, treat it like a phone that's always full when leave in the morning. The paradigm shift is refreshing in that regard.

Yes, a significant minority of people do not yet have good access to home charging yet. Yet. We'll get there.

The great thing about EV charging is you can do it almost anywhere there is electricity available. You can do it at home, a charging station, the supermarket, visiting friends or family, or at the park. I've literally hung out and asked friends to plug in while we're in the back playing cards. And when we're done the battery is topped up and its only cost me ~$2 and case of beer.

Refueling becomes less a place you have to go and more a thing you do as part of the vehicle. Like paying for parking. I think a lot of drivers have been so conditioned to needing to go to a gas station they still treat charging as going to a gas station, except to charge.

If you have at-home charging and mainly commute a huge perk is never hitting a gas station up. Getting a slower charge over night is better for your battery and better for your sanity (being able to skip the pump).
And WAAAAAAY better for your wallet.
Diesel is ~$5/gal in these parts. If you average 40mpg That's about $31/250miles. Or 19% higher than an EV. And for the unscrupulous stations charging $6/gal for diesel its 33% higher. Doesn't seem like much of a draw to me.