I drive an Ioniq 5, and my wife drives a PHEV. She got a PHEV so that we could do the old 'well, for long road trips where we don't want to bother charging.....'

We never take it on long road trips, because fast charging is a solved issue.

We're already there. The average city commuter can easily just do a single fast charge once a week, and unlike a gas car, you can just find a charger that's near something else you'd be doing anyway, like at a grocery store, mall, or down town, and your total 'charging time,' defined as 'the amount of time you, personally, have to devote to the process once you roll up to the dispenser' is 'thirty seconds to plug the car in and tap your payment card' and 'thirty seconds to unplug the car and close the charging port.'

The twenty minutes the *car* spends charging is not time *you* are spending charging. You're doing something else while the car charges. Pumping gas might 'only' take five minutes instead of twenty, but that's five minutes that *you* personally are spending.

The problem is that Linux isn't 'superior.' Does it do some things better? Sure. Maybe a lot of things.

The vast majority of computer users simply *don't care.* Nor do they need to.

Windows works well enough, it does anything almost anybody wants 'a computer' to do, and you don't need to put too much thought into it.

When I was a kid in the 80s, our halloween costumes were sized to fit snow suits under them.

A few decades later, we had a green Christmas, and it was so odd that we made a Caribbean theme to go with it.

Nowadays, it's even money if we'll have snow on the ground at Christmas any given year, and it was 30c on Halloween.

Same reason as anything else that has cheating; there's a tangible value to somebody to winning, so they want to win.

No organization should expect to be free from 'disruptions.'

Instead, they must have plans and processes in place to operate through 'disruptions.'

That's what battery preconditioning is for. Heats up the batteries on the way to the charger. Makes a big difference.

Do you also starve on vacation because you don't want to 'mess around' with finding a restaurant?

It's so little effort that it's not even worth mentioning, especially compared to all the other planning that goes into a vacation.

About as long as it takes without the car heater running; absolute worst case scenario, the heater is drawing 4 kw; even at 50kw bottom-end L3 charging speeds, that's less than 10% of the power being diverted.

Trust, but verify, my good man.

Gas pumps auto shut off.

Not all gas pumps have this, or are allowed to have this, in all places.

It's also contraindicated to have your car running while pumping gas into it.

Or it means you find a 'cheap' motel with a public charger near by, or charge during rest breaks, or whatever.

Why would you 'pay extra' for a hotel with a charger?

As youâ(TM)ve pointed out many times, the UK is much smaller than Canada, and this means that EV charging is incredibly straightforward for me

In another slashdot post about EVs, a poster was saying that it 'feels like' it would be impossible to drive across Canada in an EV in the middle of winter.

I pointed out that A Better Route Planner exists, and he doesn't need to 'feel' anything about it, he can just go look. And yes, it turns out that with a modern EV, even in the middle of winter, you can drive cross country with zero issues. Charging added something like six hours or so on to the several thousand KM trip, and that assumed all fast-chargers and no overnight charging at a hotel or anything.

The minute you switch from that mentality to âoeIâ(TM)ll charge while I do something elseâ, it all just slots into place. So on road trips, I charge when I eat or while Iâ(TM)m parked up for the day (or overnight).

Yup. You *have* to change your mentality away from 'refueling is an activity/event in and of itself' to 'refueling is something that happens while the car is parked anyway while I'm sleeping/shopping/pissing/eating/whatever.'

treating EVs as thought theyâ(TM)re inconvenient ICE vehicles instead of adapting your modus operandi even the slightest iota will lead to you having a shit experience.

Truth. I see this attitude a lot.

"I don't want to sit around for half an hour while my car charges." Yeah, that's why we don't do that; we plug in the car and wander off to do something.

But even *if* it's a charger in the middle of nowhere and you're stuck sitting there charging, I'd rather half an hour in the car, while the heater's running, than standing outside for a few minutes in -30c plus wind chill pumping gas.