Range? Generally, a person would not want to run the battery charge below 20%. Then, when charging, it takes and increasingly long time to get the last 20% of the battery charged up. Not charging at night, you generally would not get the battery above 80% or so. Listed range is 320 miles, effective range is 192 miles. And, that range drops with the aging of the battery.
Contrast to a gasoline powered vehicle. I never operate with less then 1/4 of a tank of gasoline and prefer to fill up at 1/2. Range? Doesn’t matter because I can easily fill up to the top in 3-4 minutes whenever I want.
Respectfully, I believe that's only half right. If the listed range is 320 miles it assumes starting from 100% charged to 15% left; the stated range doesn't assume draining the full stated capacity of the battery. However, to your point, it does assume the battery being fully charged (as in "slow" charged from home with a level 2 charger) so on a long trip you get 320 miles only on the first charge (the first leg of the trip from home). Presumably you'll use a level 3 fast charger the rest of the way, which means charging to only 80%, which means only 244 miles each charge after that for the rest of the trip. (If 85% worth of charge gets 320 miles, that means 3.76 miles per percent of charge, X 65.)
And, as you correctly pointed out, that doesn't get into having to plan ahead to make sure chargers are where you need them (you might have to recharge after only 160 miles to make sure you have enough charge to carry you to the next charger after that).
” Doesn’t matter because I can easily fill up to the top in 3-4 minutes whenever I want.”
Can you fill up at home while sleeping?