The standard for a gas pump consists of a diameter, length and curve of the filler nozzle. That's pretty simple. With an EV the standard has to be a pretty precise 3D rendering with very tight tolerances interfacing with a series of prongs that carry stupid high current and communications. On top of all that you have software that talks to the charger and negotiates a charge rate continuously during the charge session. EVs that use CCS can't even seem to get the software part right and I'm not even sure if it's the charger or the car. Finally, Tesla's connector is free to use by anyone without royalties. It is a superior design in every way to CCS and it can charge 400V EV, which are most of them right now, at a much higher rate than CCS. CCS chargers 400V at max 140kW on most of it's chargers and 200kW MAX per the spec. Tesla has 250kW and will probably soon raise that to 500kW with the same connector. CCS has to go to a new connector and even thicker cables to get there. They are already much thicker than Tesla cables and hard to use. The "Hard to Use" isn't just my opinion, EA themselves admitted it and introduced a new design to help reduce the difficultly of handling their heavy cables by adding a harness system.

The infrastructure bill that passed last year has $7.5B dollars to build 500k chargers. Given an average size station of around 16 chargers, that would be enough to put a station every 45 miles in the contiguous lower 48. That's if they are evenly spread out and not, you know, along highways. I think it won't be too much trouble given that electricity is everywhere.

Charging speed doesn't slow you down unless an extra 30 minutes on a 10 hour drive is just too much. Cold weather isn't really an issue for any EV with a heat pump. It will still have an impact on local trips if you leave your car out in the cold, but when you have 300 miles of range, only having 200 when you need to go 40 is no big deal. On long trips the heat pumps can scavenge enough heat from the motor to do everything you need so there is almost no range loss. Again you don't lose range really you just can't access it without heating up the battery which if you use the battery will cause range loss. Using the waste heat to heat the battery solves this problem. Style is a thing, there just aren't enough variety of good EVs yet for sure. You can power your house for a week off an EV so taking one camping and running a few small ACs, coolers, welding rigs, TVs and lights would last for weeks. A few solar panels is like trying to power a house with AA batteries.

Missoula to Glendive Montana is easy to drive today. Not sure why you would use 200 since i90 is a lot faster. It's an 8 hour drive with 1 hour of charging in any long rang Tesla model. https://abetterrouteplanner.co...