[godelski]

Adding gas to car: 3-5 minutes

EV: 30-45 minutes

Human attention span: a few tiktok videos

You be the judge. It is literally an order of magnitude longer than filling up with gas (this is actually why some car companies have pursued hydrogen which is also 3-5 minutes).

[Retric]

Also EV: ~0 minutes because you plugged in at home/hotel last night and get to walk away.

No need to drive to a gas station, pay, and watch something flammable for several minutes. Just plug in and go to sleep. Different technologies simply have different trade offs.

Waiting 45 minutes at a charger is also really inefficient. At 350kW a 100kWh car would fully charging in 17 minutes but unfortunately things really slow down above 80% charge, optimum is closer to 10-50%. This makes longer stops wasteful unless you happen to want to stop for something else.

Optimizing for speed it’s ~10 minute stops and fully charging at night thus skipping multiple fueling stops.