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

How is it not? Tesla's website, Tesla forums, several EV websites, all put the charging rate at 2-6 miles per hour of charging. Do you disagree with them? Do you have any proof that states that it charges much much faster than everyone else, including the manufacturer, claims?

At that rate, a 20 mile trip (40 miles to get there and back) is between seven and twenty hours charging. That definitely does not fall within "a few minutes".

Even if you get a level 2 240V charger installed in the garage, those claims have been about 13-20 miles per hour. So 40 miles is around two or three hours of charging. Still not quite "a few minutes".

The new V3 superchargers look to hit a rate of 15 miles per minute (although a fuller battery means slower recharge times). So yea, if you have one on your way home, or paid Tesla tons of money to install one at home (and the utility to run the capacity to your house), you can recharge the day "in a few minutes", unless you usually keep the battery close to full (a good idea), in which case it's gonna be a couple times "a few minutes" when you refill nightly.

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

"And the “additional cost” compared with the initial vehicle is just another trope, as is the rest of your imaginary case."

There's what you said. Calling the extra expense "a trope" and part of "your imaginary case" is, in common English parlance, attempting to ignore the subject.

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

And calling the facts I pulled off Tesla's website/Tesla forums and applying a bit of basic math to them, as "a trope" and "imaginary", doesn't build a case for EVs whatsoever.

“all put the charging rate at 2-6 miles per hour of charging”

...on a common wall outlet. Being able to plug in anywhere is an option of course, but that won’t be the usual course of action of most people who buy a Tesla.

Robots who are up 24/7 may have a problem with the hours involved in overnight charging, but no one else should.

And even in Michigan, where ICE cars at least used to be built in large quantities, have Tesla Superchargers in (for example) Meijer filling stations, and those will put up to 200 miles into the car in 15 minutes.

And yeah, you are using tropes, and yeah, you are a troll.