That's fair. If I had time to spare on trips, I guess I could get used to it. But the trips I make, I refuse to go more than a half mile off the interstate for gas. Minimized travel time is my main criteria.
To be honest, I don't have the personality for an EV. I hate charging my phone. The only time I like my phone is that first few weeks that the battery lasts days. Having to charge every night is legitimately the thing I hate most about my phone. I get extra pissed because I know that the battery wearing out is more often than not, by design of the phone, and intended to make me buy a new one.
If I could drive an EV that I could fill up 440 to 600 miles of range in 5 minutes anywhere in the country... I'd be happy. But I don't see myself adapting to their technology.
I had a similar mentality change a few years ago with my cellphone......It was difficult, but once I made the switch I realized it's no big deal.
I had a Galaxy Note 4 that had a replaceable battery. I was travelling a lot by air for work, and picked up an additional 2 batteries and chargers. So I left the hotel in the morning with (3) full charged batteries. I used the phone heavily throughout the day, and would often go through 2.5 charges during a long trip. Then I moved to a "fast charging" Pixel 2XL. It will pickup from 10-15% to like 75% in 15min or something stupid fast like that (I don't remember the exact specs). I anticipated this being an issue from the start, and picked up a power brick to charge along the way during my travels. Come to find out, I spent enough time just "sitting" around in an airport that by strategically picking my spots, I could maintain a "medium" amount of charge throughout the day. I might drop to 10-15% for a bit, but as soon as I was near a power outlet I could quickly regain into the 70-80% window and be good until the next time I was near an outlet. It was a bit of mental gymnastics to get there, and there was a day or two of anxiety surrounding that (not being connected at the time was a big deal for me due to workload), but once I made the switch it was nice to not have to carry/deal with that extra stuff to get through my day.
This premise of not topping off to 100% in 15min with an ICE, and instead planning a stop around lunch, spending 35min of charging in an EV and getting a burger at the same time, just isn't going to compute until we do it. I have enough boy scout in me, and have had to take enough detours, and multi-hour traffic jams, and other BS during road trips that the anxiety of leaving without 100% SoC will take some time and practice to come to terms with. If I'm being honest, there are a number of things in my life right now, that I can look at with the same lense, and realize that I've made the same change in the past for other reasons (although more forced than voluntary).
I expect the change to an EV is the same way. Us "old car guys" are going to have some anxiety about it, and until we can experience it a few times, and come to terms with how it REALLY works, and how it REALLY performs (good or bad), we're just conjecturing about what we think/expect based on decades of ICE powered vehicles. I would wager we're also not "early adopters" on some technologies. Driving an EV, IMO, is still very much for the "early adopters". You have to WANT to do it at this point, it's not the default technology that is easy and cheap. While not revolutionary tech, it is evolutionary enough that it doesn't QUITE fit into all the use cases just yet, and if you want that Swiss Army Knife "do it all" vehicle, then an EV isn't there yet. There are a TON of good use cases for them, and they a lot of things really well, but they aren't QUITE there.
Again, we're still WAY closer now than when this thread started. This thread is a shade over 22mo old now for those keeping score at home. Imagine where we'll be in another 22mo??!!?
I Dont like seeing single digits as the arrival percentage.
