I usually charge when the car is stopped, so 0 MPH.

Do you even know what you're talking about? I took 2 long road trips in my EV last year through central USA (Nebraska, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, etc.) and had zero problems finding a charger.

I take your anecdote and raise you one. I took two 3000+ round trip cross-country trips last year in the US in my EV. Zero problems finding charging on the way or running into queues. Sounds like you're just buying into Fox News talking points.

And EVs do not only work in a city. I live in the Mountain West and there's pretty much nowhere I can't get to in my EV.

And how long do you think it takes to charge a modern EV? Modern EVS that can handle up to 350kW are very fast to charge (e.g., 18 mins to go from 10-80% on the Hyundai Ioniq 5), and charge rates are only improving from there.

Decimal time was tried... didn't catch on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I'd ask the same of you -- please tell me about all the large-scale (heck, or small-scale) coal, oil, gas, or nuclear plants built with NO subsidies of any kind. You're acting like subsidies for renewable energy generation is some unprecedented thing...

Double standard much? If oil/gas are so cheap, why do they need anything from the federal government (grants, loans, tax breaks, etc)?

An easy Google search would answer your question:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-...

I mean the same argument applies to ICE vehicles, but that doesn't stop anyone from saying "I get 500 miles on a single tank of gas".

Makes me think of Short Circuit:

Ben Jabituya: "Unable. Malfunction."
Howard Marner: How can it refuse to turn itself off?
Shroeder: Maybe it's pissed off.
Newton Crosby: It's a machine, Schroeder. It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes.
Newton Crosby, Ben Jabituya: [in unison] It just runs programs.
Howard Marner: It usually runs programs.

Umm its always been that way with ICE too. Want more features, you pay more. In any case, EV ownership is more pleasant than ICE ever was and I don't think I would ever go back to owning an ICE vehicle..

The Bolt is likely great for around town, but it is not a long-distance car and shouldn't be used to draw conclusions on long trips in other EVs.

I did two major trips last year (3000mi round-trip each) in my Hyundai Ioniq 5. Since the car can fast-charge up to at rates up to 350 kW (e.g., 20-80% battery in ~18 mins) I found the trip time didn't increase significantly.

Two points:
1) Who says the Louvre isn't local in this scenario and you're not paying to travel anywhere. Or in this thought exercise just substitute whatever local established art gallery you have.

2) How is my analogy disingenuous? To bring it back to cinema, your statement would apply equally: "You and your friends filming a movie locally is in no way comparable to somebody paying to travel to another continent to film a movie on location."

Don't want to pay to see the art in the Louvre? Just get a bunch of friends together and fingerpaint and put that up in a gallery! Its the same thing after all!

I thought that was a homonym...