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To be specific, fast charging is to be used only sparingly (i.e. only on long trips). If only a small portion of your charging is with 150kw charging you don't degrade the battery life. So talking about fast chargers in regards to whether or not an EV is good for the trips you'd take within driving distance of your region is fine. But talking about fast charging if you live in an apartment and can't charge at home for your regular use, the your point is valid about fast charging shortening the life of the battery.

For the record, the few of us FReepers who own EV's are 100% with you on hating govt stimulus or other influence on car markets. We just happen to like EV's for our particular needs and wants (our use cases). It's nice to have options.

For me, the main thing having both an EV car and an ICE pickup bring to the table is that it gives our family some diversification on energy dependence. Basically, the Dims have to make both power and gasoline hard to come by or too expensive to use to mess up our transportation. If they mess up just power or just gas, we have a car that uses the other energy source. And in our case since we live in an area that's good for decentralized solar, we can drive the EV for local driving even if the Dims mess up both gas and the grid.

To be specific, fast charging is to be used only sparingly (i.e. only on long trips). If only a small portion of your charging is with 150kw charging you don't degrade the battery life.

Correct. Another factor that degrades battery life, is heat. Fast charging will introduce heat into the battery pack. So it is recommended not to fast charge beyond 80 percent. Keep the charge between 20 percent and 80 percent.

Then there is heat due to the weather. An EV sitting or driving in 110 degree heat will degrade the battery pack. Let it cool down before fast charging.

Best way to prolong battery life is to trickle charge on 110v or better yet on 220v, and again limit to 80 or 90 percent unless a long trip is planned then go for 100 percent and use soon after for the long trip.

Do your homework on prolonging battery life before buying an EV.