But I have a problem with: But those needing to make longer daily trips are going to be plugged in more often. Ummm...no. If you daily use DC fast charging you're wearing out your battery. Use it only for every now and then long trips (or unusual long day of running over 200 miles in errands around town).
No one should think about getting an EV as one of their cars unless you intend to drive it with mostly home charged (slow charged) miles. And that needs to be at least 12K miles per year for the gas savings to offset other costs that come with an EV (at least that's my humble opinion based on the past year of gas and power prices in Alabama).
Then there are other requirements like, don't get one if you plan to use it for a lot of snowy winter driving, or drive on trips through charging deserts, or drive a lot of long trips without your wife (assuming she's the one who wants to stop every 200 miles no matter what kind of car you drive LOL). Don't get an EV unless it's one of two cars (i.e. you're married) so the other car can be the gas car for the times you might take a trip that an EV is bad for. For us, it's the gas pickup since I every now and then need a pickup for pickup chores and it requires a load with many more miles than an EV pickup is good for. With those parameters, our EV works well for us, driving it 15K to 16K miles per year with home charged miles in the warm southeast.
Living in Florida, I see EVs all over the place every day, mostly Teslas, but Rivians, and others..............
I’m retired and don’t go to work everyday. In fact, most of the time I don’t drive at all. I think an electric car, along with some solar panels and storage batteries, would be ideal for me.
I also live in Alabama, right between Montgomery and Auburn, and get plenty of sun most days. I might drive to Walmart or Piggly Wiggly every few days, occasionally, less than once a month, 30 miles to the big city.
I also have my dependable F-150 for farm and town completely paid off.
What do you think?
15k miles a yr driving? Not for me. I put on 1k miles on my old gas powered chevy just last week.