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I agree. If you have regular long commutes, thus it'd take 18 hours to charge it up every night, then an EV is a bad choice.

But if like me you drive ~200 miles per week, are married (thus we need two cars anyway, might as well have one EV and one gas car and have the best of both worlds), own your home, live in the south, have a metal roof, no shade over your roof, and a large portion of your roof facing south (all of which I do), then you might consider putting a solar system onto your roof (like I did almost a year ago) and the next time you replace one of your used cars -- replace it with an EV (what my wife and I are considering doing).

My current solar system will pay for itself on the 10th or 11th year, assuming 3% inflation on power and natural gas rates. I hate having to do it. I wish I could drill my own natural gas and oil, but I can't do those. Nor can I stop the Dims from jacking up our energy prices to control us in the name of paying tithe to Greta Gaia. So I used a HELOC to pay for the solar system and couldn't be happier with the throughput. It literally produced 55% of all the power we consumed last year in our two-story now all-electric house. Gone are the days I grumble about natural gas prices and I grumble only half as much as I used to about power rates. It's given us a hedge against runaway energy costs for our house. I have taken half the literal power out of the hands of bureaucrats and put it into our hands. Solar is not as efficient or dependable as other energy sources. But it has one thing that's very valuable: I control it. Therefore I can tweak it for mine and my family's interests, not in ways that benefit the big gubment control freaks.

I'm thinking of doing the same with runaway gasoline prices by getting an EV. By my estimate, about half the time I charge the EV it'll be with excess solar power (power I wasn't using anyway). That's if I don't upgrade my solar system, which I will if the Dims succeed in forcing most people to drive EV's and, thereby, need to control us with their power prices like they control us with their pump prices.