[Tell It Right]

Agreed. And if you didn't do solar, based just on EV pulling power from the grid vs gas car costs at the gas pump, it comes out to about 12K miles per year for the gas savings of an EV to be worth the extra costs. (That's Alabama power rates and Alabama gas prices, not counting recent gas price hikes from the Iran war, which is probably temporary and not worth making long term decisions on.)

So in a nutshell don't get an EV unless:

1) You're driving at least 12K miles per year on home charged miles.
2) You need two cars anyway (i.e. married) so the other car is a gas car in case some long trips have few good charging options your or your long trips are during the cold up north.
3) You can set up charging at home.
4) You have to replace one of your cars anyway. (It's not gas savings if you're making a car payment for no reason.)

In our case, with solar, the 12K in step 1 is 8K miles for the threshold of do-I-drive-enough-miles-for-an-EV-to-save-me-more-than-it-costs-me. We drive 18K miles per year on home charged miles, well past the 8K miles threshold.

So far for us, we haven't wanted to drive up north during the cold winter. And the only trip we were glad we took the gas pickup is one that involved pickup chore hauling anyway. But I knew that before getting an EV. I knew that most of the trips we like driving are conducive to EV's (fast chargers up and down the eastern seaboard when we visit family, and the ones up north we never visit during the winter).

[citizen]

That is good planning.

My trips are occasionally N Huntsville to Fayetteville.
Hsv to Decatur a couple times/year; visiting my cousin on the way back.
Various medical, to the Hsv medical area.
The rest are all relatively short hauls.

And this is fine, I am not a goer, by nature.