EV's aren't for everybody. But here's why my wife and I like our EV. This is from a free market perspective, not the forced conversion to EV's the Dims are pushing.
1. We drive 26K miles in it per year. In other words, we drive it enough for the gas and oil change savings to be substantial (worth considering increased up front costs of getting an EV when I had to replace my wife's old ICE crossover anyway).
2. We need two cars anyway and have more security with both an EV car and an ICE car (specifically an ICE pickup). In other words, we don't have all of our transportation eggs in one energy basket. If the Dims make power hard to come by or too expensive: we have an ICE car. If the Dims make gas hard to come by or too expensive (as it is), we have an EV.
3. We have lots of solar because we're trying to make our family mostly energy independent (86% of our power has been provided by our solar YTD in our all-electric home, including charging the EV). An EV is an extension of that mostly energy independence out onto the road at least for local driving and the first 250 miles of a trip. I simply can't drill and refine my own oil (or drill my own natural gas, or mine my own coal), but I can generate most of the power I need with solar. FReepers who distrust government as much as I do ought to be able to appreciate solar being attractive by the fact that it's the one energy source I don't have to beg a regulator's permission for or pay a climate indulgence tax to use.
I'm sure there are many FReepers who are in a bad climate for solar and/or EV or have other things going on that are bad for solar and/or EV (i.e. live in an apartment, live in a place you don't plan to be at for at least 10 years to recoup the energy savings of solar, etc.). But my wife and I are in a good situation for solar and an EV (live in a home we own and plan to live at the rest of our lives, have places with no shade, can charge at home, warm climate with only a few days in the year below freezing during the day to drain the EV battery, have two cars anyway so we have an ICE pickup for the times an EV won't do like a trip with few charging options, but most of our trips have good charging options, etc.). So the EV and solar and other energy improvements done to the house are working well for us in protecting our retirement investments from stupid Dim energy policies and their sky high energy inflation.
Thanks for elaborating. They have a VERY limited place, but a place for a select few nonetheless.
Just don't park or charge it in your garage!
Your situation and choices are about 95% aligned to ours.
Works really well, actually.
Except we have a third vehicle, ICE, which is my wife’s “always wanted a red Porsche” anniversary gift a few years ago. The right used Porsche is not pricey, and we have found it to be incredibly reliable and it gets about 25.5 MPG, when driven by my wife ... Me? Um, a good bit lower ;-)