[noogle]

That's the thing about cars: their real test (or importance) is not the 90% of the time spent in the "happy path" (short, planned drives after a full night charge). It's to address those edge but critical cases - long trips, unexpected drives, off-the-beaten-path routes.

Another thing rarely raised is the correlated nature of traffic issues. Charging is fine now, mostly because it seems there is a huge over-provisioning of chargers compared to EVs on the road. What happens with busy days? An evacuation order sending 1M people on the same route at the same time? For ICEV there is an easy solution. Not for EVs.

[tapoxi]

I'd say that it's more like 99%. The vast majority of my time with the car I'm driving around the Boston metro area, where it's an objectively superior experience. The three days a year I'm making a long road trip (0.8% of days), it's mildly more inconvenient.

In June we're driving to northern Maine. This involves a stop halfway through at a CCS charger for 30-40 minutes while we change the baby and eat. Sure it takes longer, but it isn't inconvenient enough.

An evacuation order is an interesting worse case scenario, but not one I'll likely ever encounter living in New England. Our storms tend to be "stay home" affairs instead of "get out".

[sagarm]

What is the easy solution for ICEVs?

[noogle]

Gas jerrycans. Either one kept at your garage for emergencies (cost: $5), or the gas station scaling horizontally by using/selling jerrycans.

Haven't seen any solution for instantly increasing charging throughput, and an on-line power is needed, while it is more likely to fail exactly in the kind of events that require mass evacuation.