Coast-to-coast you're adding roughly a full day consumed entirely by time spent at charging stations every 50 miles one way. That's great for families planning a road trip vacation. /s
Americans average 15,000 miles per year. 15,000 mi / 50 mi between charge stops * 20 min per stop is 6,000 minutes or 100 hours. That's about 4 days 3 hrs 50 min out of your year charging the car.
Assuming 20 mpg and 16 gallon tanks that's about 47 refueling stops. At 10 min each, that's 470 min or about 7 hrs 50 min to keep your car filled.
If I figured right, let's see ... 52 "lost" hours or 8 "lost" hours ... Yup, looks like progress to me. /s
No wonder you’re not a liberal — you’re thinking with your “left-brain” here. If you were a leftist, you wouldn’t let such cold hard facts interrupt your utopian dreams.
Of course, not all trips are long-haul and you can charge your EV in at night while you sleep, so the numbers don’t work for average annual driving of 15k miles. But for a long drive of, say, >500 miles, you’re spot-on.