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Originally Posted by Quadruple VANOS
EVs in the US are about 7% of the total automotive market, so a tiny 20% of that 7% proves not my point. EVs won’t become the norm until public charging is close to as time efficient as refueling ICE.
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So this is my recollection of how time efficient refueling my ICE vehicle was. Long commute each day, in rush hour traffic. Granted, I would pass about a dozen gas stations along my route. And most of them would have no lines. The problem is, when you pass by a dozen gas stations every day, you remember prices. There's not a good reason why I'd want to fill up an empty tank with premium gas at a station that doesn't have competitive pricing. And so, whenever my low fuel light came on, I ended up at the lower priced station that usually had lines, especially during rush hour. Unfortunately, that station was on my route *to* work. Which means that if I was already running late, I'd have to instead catch it on the way home. But that in itself presented another issue, as it was on the wrong side of a divided road with very busy intersections. So just making the U-turn in both directions, add 10 minutes. Then add the lines. Finally the extra long time it took to fill up an empty tank.
If I could make it through the week without needing to fill up, then I could instead wait to fill up at my weekly Costco run. But as anyone who's experienced this can tell you, that's no time saver either!
For the vast majority of use cases, the true time saver is being able to charge at home.