If your question is sincere, you should drive one around for a few days to find out first hand. It will depend on your use-case and openness to the idea.
I mentioned to a Tesla owner that I didn't think my driving profile is amenable to EV as I drive x-country several times per year. He disagreed as a person who also makes similar trips (canada to FL). He indicated charging stops are user-friendly as you can use the restroom and grab a snack while it's super-charging, ~25 minutes. I usually stop frequently for potty breaks but don't linger. Still not sure if it's a good fit for me, but I do dig the Cyberbeast and the features it has.
“I do dig the Cyberbeast and the features it has.”
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Until it’s time to inevitably replace a very expensive battery......if you haven’t already, you might want to add that to your consideration. 👍
As far as convenience of charging the EV on the road, what your friend said is real. We take our EV on most long trips because we do our homework and make sure there are plenty of fast chargers to choose from. (Homework I did before getting the EV to make sure it, our newest car, would be good for most long trips.) Last year in August I drove it home from New Brunswick to Alabama -- a 1,740 mile one-way trip. All but two stops were completed in 10-15 minutes, and one of those two stops that took longer was while I was away from the car getting a bite to eat. Like your friend says: it wasn't 10-15 minutes to charge plus another few minutes to go use the restroom. I'm comfortable with walking away from the EV while it charges to go use the restroom or buy a soda. I won't do that when filling up my gas pickup. So the 5-7 minutes I fill up my gas pickup is in addition to the extra few minutes to go to the restroom.
The aforementioned 1,740 mile trip. It took me 43 hours, but that includes a 10 hour hotel stay plus a half hour I had my laptop out doing work while at a charger, past when the EV was charged for me to get on the road. So call it 32.5 hours of driving/charging/restroom/eating time to drive 1,740 miles. That's about what I'd do in a gas car. (Note: my wife wasn't with me making the stops last longer and be more frequent LOL) And it cost $220 in charging. That's probably a little less than gas would cost, particularly with the gas costing $4.60 - $4.80 / gallon in Canada last year (after converting liters to gallons and CAD to USD), and driving down through the northeast U.S. where gas is more than in Alabama.
But do your homework before getting an EV as one of your two cars. For example, my wife and I don't visit up north during the winter. If we did, we'd take our gas pickup. And if we did it a lot, we wouldn't have bought an EV because we'd want our newer car to be the one we usually take on trips. Nor do we visit places with routes that don't have good fast chargers. And that's just the trips.
The main gas savings is from home charged miles. My EV gets 3.9 miles/kWh on average with local driving (that includes kWh used for running the A/C and the lights for the times we drive at night). There's a loss of 10% while charging and converting AC power to DC power. So call it 3.5 miles/kWh added to your power bill (if I didn't have a lot of home solar). That's 16 cents per kWh with Alabama Power (after you add in the fuel charge rate rider that AP has to pay for coal/natural gas/biomass/uranium to run their power plants, plus a 4% state tax on top of everything). And Alabama Power gives you a 2 cent per kWh discount if you charge your EV at night 9 PM to 5 AM. So call it 14 cents/kWh (if I didn't have solar usually charging the EV). Thus, $1 divided by 14 cents, times 3.5 miles, means for every $1 added to your power bill you get 25 miles. That's for a crossover shaped EV.
In Alabama where I'm at, gas has been $2.899/gallon for a while. 25 gallons of that would be $72.48. But for that same $72.48 added to the power bill for charging an EV would get 1,811 miles (using the $1 = 25 miles calculation above). We drive ours 18K miles per year on home charged miles alone (1,500 miles per month). With home solar providing 80% of the power we consume in our all-electric, two-story home, including charging the EV, it brings a bit of self-reliance that I couldn't have if we still drove mainly just gas cars. I simply can't produce my own gasoline. If I could I would because hydrocarbons are superior to solar and wind from a dependability and physical science perspective. The only problem with hydrocarbons is that there's too much political science between the point they're extracted from the ground to the point where I can buy them on the over-regulated energy market.