So you are willing to pay out another $10K eventually for a battery just so that you can plug in at home?
As mentioned, I've racked up $10k in various gas engine vehicle repairs by about the same time where an EV battery might likely need repair. Colleague recently had to replace his Volt battery after 300k miles for about $6k, and that was a battery that would be a full charge cycle in just 30 miles. So if the battery repairs are going to screw me, so too would owning a gas car.
Don't you analyze your range every time you fill it up in order to determine whether that time is coming or not?
No, it gets boring after years of the range being roughly the same, more to do with driving characteristics and weather and if there's been a decline, it's unnoticable.
And when considering the fact that public charging is starting to cost almost as much as gas in certain parts of the world.
You didn't read my comment did you? Yes in some places the commercial charging is *almost* (but not quite as much as gas). This is largely academic for me.
1) You never go on long trips and never plan to
"Never" is the wrong word, but either:
- The 2 or 3 times a year of having to 'suffer' a commercial charging provider is not enough to outweigh the *massively* more common daily driving activity where residential/work charging is sufficient, cheap, and massively more convenient.
2) If you go on long trips, your timeline is very flexible so if you charge for an extra while, that's ok.
If I have a strict timeline, I'm travelling commercial, and company is paying for rental or taxi/rideshares to close the gap. Adding 20 minutes to a 6 hour road trip is no big deal for any personal road trip. Chances are I can tuck it in with eating some food and not even have a delta. If it's longer than 6 hours, I'm probably stopping at a hotel anyway, I don't trust myself to drive safely longer than that in a single stretch.
3) You live somewhere with a lot of good public transit.
I don't see the connection here. Public transit generally covers a metropolitan area, relatively low radius of transit. Range anxiety shouldn't be a factor even in theory within public transit.