Imagine having a gas station at home in your garage (assuming you own a house). Every time you’re home and your car is sitting in the garage (which is most of the time for most people), the “gas station” is slowly feeding “gas” into your car. You never even have to go to a real gas station, except on long trips (200+ miles).

I plug my EV in at home on the weekends. It charges overnight. Monday, I drive it to work (30 miles) and if there’s a charger available there, I charge it up for free. Over the 8 hours I work, the car charges up enough to refill both the trip to work plus enough for the trip home. If all I’m doing is to/from work, I don’t even have to plug in at home on weekdays.

I barely pay for fuel at all. I never have to stand at a gas pump in the freezing cold.

If I’m ever running low on charge (rare) I can find a charging station OR use the emergency plug-in charger & extension cord I keep in my frunk at any available outlet anywhere in the country. I’ve never had to use it, but I have it.

For me, an EV was the best option. I’ll never go back to an IC car.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Agree. And torque. You want torque? OK. It'll give you torque. It doesn't care what speed it's doing, it's got torque.

That and regen braking, which is the ducks nuts.