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Stop trolling. Most driving remains within 25 miles of home. Period.

So I said the average commute is about 20 miles. You add five miles to that, yet I'm the one trolling? Huh?

Right, that’s the additional cost. Stop trolling.

So if you admit there's additional cost, why do you call it a "trope" and "imaginary"?

Yours is a single alleged case, period. MOST people would be well served by an electric vehicle, period — apart from the initial cost. Period.

Let's see. I have a ~85 mile round trip through the week, and about 45 miles Sunday. One of my brothers is about 70 miles round trip to work. A coworker is just over 50 miles. Couple other people I know have 50-80 mile round trips. All of those are beyond a 40ish mile nightly charge. An EV would be questionable at best for many of us, and we're not even accounting for extremely cold or hot weather yet. Sure, we could dwindle down over the week, but now I have to plan to not go anywhere on a Saturday to make sure I get it back to full for the week, or have a 15 mile drive to the nearest Supercharger, and sit there for an hour(?) or so. And that's a 20-mile walk from my bar, so not worth it.

Although you can 'win' the wife. She's only a 1.7 mile drive to work, so an EV would make sense for her... if the vehicle cost was the same as her fancy Pilot. Four miles a day is gonna take a looooooooooooooooooooong time to recoup the $70,000+ extra she'd pay for the Tesla SUV.

You’re trolling because a 20 or 25 mile trip isn’t going to mean hours of recharging time.

You’re trolling because you tried to claim I was ignoring the cost of the outlet.

Both your claims are tropes.

Repeating your own case doesn’t build a case against EVs.