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Originally Posted by Tcoat
This is exactly the same issue I had when trying to talk the wife into going EV. She is convinced that the charging tech has not advanced since about 1995 and every EV takes a minimum of 8 hours to charge. No amount of proof that is not true will change her thoughts. The reality is that her normal use is almost the text book perfect example of the benefits of an EV.
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My wife drives a Volt, but really liked the Bolt better. We've definitely taken a few trips where the BRZ wasn't an option (I'd have to change the AP Sprint brakes out to drive in winter storms) and charging would be a challenge (far enough off the beaten path to visit family) but at this point, the use case that sticks out is (pre-Volt) when she had to pick me up from the event where my first BRZ was wrecked. She'd already been out doing stuff, and would not have felt comfortable saying "oh, wait an hour so I can charge"... and that would still have been an option, but she might have waited till the drive back when I nearly passed out both trying to cough and discovering that my ribs REALLY didn't want to let me cough (I evidently had worse contusions as a passenger than the driver... maybe that makes sense, I don't know)
Not driving outside the electric range at all these days. Summers it's 50miles, winters 40ish.
Biggest challenge is non-Tesla charging options are still wildly inconsistent and often crappy or unavailable even when hardware exists.
But what really gets me is that the typical loud and obnoxious "never ever don't force that on me" are the ones that want more stoplight power to win those every-day races - something electric delivers in spades.
So no idea what the real issue is.