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My personal experience confirms this, I live in Europe and I have one 230V circuit in my driveway. At 2 kW it adds about 8-10 miles of range per hour, and this easily covers city driving, which in my case is usually less than 30 miles roundtrip.

I don't feel a need for faster charging at home. Sometimes I do long distance journeys using public chargers along the way, but those journeys were never back to back. Overnight charging at home when I returned was enough to recharge the battery to a confortable level for the next day.

There is also a value added tax in Europe of ~20%. That means a $25,000 car is 23,000 euros + tax, and ends up close 28,000 eur. Then , depending on the country, you have registration taxes, but also EV subsidies, in the end the price can vary a bit from one place to another.

Let me pitch in as a guy who badly wants an EV but his primary car is still running on gas.

1) You don't need 0 to 100 percent under 5 minutes. Trust me. It's absolutely ok to do road trips when you can add 200 miles worth of charge - that's 3 hours of highway driving - in 15 minutes. Bathroom break and all that, you don't feel you're waiting. Current 200 kW Tesla superchargers are already that fast.

2) I'm with you here. I'm waiting for enough good chargers to show up in my neck of the woods before I can swap the remaining gas car with an EV. But I am optimistic here. Ten years ago there were none nearby. Four years ago there were just a handful of slow ones. Now there are quite a few, but when I tried them, they are sometimes unreliable - often broken, slow; and it's not fun to stay at night, in the pouring rain, in an area with poor signal, trying to download some stupid buggy app to start charging. The local Tesla superchargers are good, but not very convenitently located. Nevertheless, I really hope that, give a couple more years, it will get better.

3/4). At less than $30k there is the cheapest trim of the gasoline Jeep Renegade. That's a small car that does not tow much. Are you sure this is what you mean by "vehicles I want" ?

If you increase your budget to $40k you get an arguably decent car like a Tesla 3.

Yes, price is an issue. Ideally a 300 miles battery should cost about the same as a gas engine. Right now the only place where this happens is in China. But we don't want to simply import Chinese batteries and cars, we want to build a domestic battery and EV industry, so for the foreseeable future imports will be blocked. That means we'll pay more for EVs to allow the industry to build more expensive domestic supply chains. The alternative is to not have a domestic industry at all.

5) Agree, 300 miles makes a long trip confortable. But again it's something you can have now, most Teslas, and many Hyundai, Volkswagen EVs have around 300 miles of range.

Maybe today it's not the day, but I believe it may happen in our lifetimes.

Go to their website. There is literally a short video showing that the hardware is installed at the base of the tower.

500 miles is a 7-8 hour trip. Maybe a 30 minutes stop seems too long, but what worked for me and anecdotally for many other people is to stop every 2-3 hours for ~20 minutes - it somehow fits the time needed for a restroom break, a leg stretch and a sandwich, and you don't feel you're waiting. That's roughly every 150-200 miles. Assuming you charge 20% - 80% at each stop, then you can handle this scenario with a 300 mile range car and 150 kW fast chargers spaced every 50 miles or less.

Unsurprisingly, this is close to what long range EVs and charging networks are targeting.

The truth is there have been continuously incremental battery improvements for the past 20 years or more, those added up to the point where electric vehicles are practical and start to become affordable. Today you can buy an EV that, compared to the original Tesla Model S of 10 years ago, drives 50% farther and costs 3 times less.

I'm one of the holdouts still using Thunderbird.
I work as a consultant so I got a bit of email accounts from various customers, plus personal accounts. Mostly GMail and Outlook but also one Yahoo. They all get read from one application. Even more, I can drag and drop emails from one inbox to the other, drag and drop attachments, reply from a different account.
I can also archive old emails on my local computer, just drag the folder and here's a backup copy of my email archive.
Threaded view is something you don't find in web interfaces. Helpful when you have a long tree of replies and forwards across multiple people from different organizations and you want to make sure that your reply goes to the right group.
The quick filter feature is fast, reliable and most important consistent - I get the same results every time. When I want to get all the emails from John in the past two years and make sure the real important one with the original contract details is not missed, I trust Thunderbird more than a web mail here.
This does not stop me using the web interface when it makes sense - mostly when doing search, calendar and address book integration. I can easily use both worlds.

I would say that the US has much more to lose from a cyberattack than North Korea or Russia. I don't see the North Koreans getting huge economic losses and closing offices and factories because their cloud apps and network equipment don't work anymore.

Tesla requires the driver to monitor the car at all times. They never take responsibility for an accident, even if the car is in AutoPilot mode.

With this Honda, you will be legally allowed to text or watch a video while driving, with Honda being ultimately liable for whatever the car is doing. This is a big leap of trust in how reliable the self driving system is. Tesla has more bells and whistles, but on the reliability side, they are not confident enough to guarantee something like this.

Why do people think that you absolutely need to have the gas station experience with an electric car? Like go to a charger with an empty battery, stand next to it for 10 minutes until it charges up completely, then drive it for 600 km or so.

Let's face it, it's going to be different.

Do you have a home garage or plug at work? It charges up overnight or while you're in the office - for those who still commute to an office in 2021. You wake up every morning with a full battery.

OK, you don't have a garage. Do you go shopping? Plug it in a 50kW charger in the mall parking lot. Come back in one hour, there's 300km of range (city driving) added. That's more or less a typical commute for a week. Actually you don't even want to charge faster, otherwise you'd have to return to the car too early and you can't even finish your shopping!

What about a highway trip? a 120 kW charger next to a service area shop and restaurant will put 200 km of range at highway speeds in ~20 minutes. Assuming you leave home with a full charge, you can have a 4-5 hours trip with only one stop. Most people are having that stop anyway.

We don't need fancy new technology. We need widespread availability of chargers using current, mature technologies - and that's a business problem, of cost and sales and economies of scale. If there are enough electric cars on the road, it's going to be worth it for businesses to install those chargers.

Electric vehicles are perfect for a 2 vehicle family living in a suburb, who commute daily to work, and have a garage where they can put a charging point. Manufacturers cater to this crowd, look for example at Peugeot's offer - small full-electric vehicles (208, 2008) with ~250 km range, intended for daily commutes and short trips; and large plug-in hybrids (3008, 508) that you can take on road trips without charging worries.

However there is a large proportion of Europeans that don't fit into that pattern. Many of us have a single vehicle that is parked on the street. Charging infrastructure still needs an order of magnitude improvement, and I mean both the number and the power of charging points, to make everyone switch to electric. You need lots of 50kW chargers in supermarkets and public parking lots. And enough 150KW+ chargers in service areas along the motorways to feed the crowds when the holiday season begins.

It will happen, but not overnight, I don't know if 5 years are enough.

And BTW, 1 kWh of charge in a typical electric car takes you ~5 km, maybe more in city, less in winter at highway speeds. It's still cheaper than European-priced gas if you are able to charge at home, and about the same if you fast charge at current prices.

I believe "cars" in this context includes anything that's not a commercial van.

From the TFA: It is unusual because all other automakers comply voluntarily with NHTSA recall requests.

Tesla did not want to comply to the request so they had to take the unusual steps of forcing them through a formal letter.

Checked the video - the guy is complaining that his customers, from Netherlands to Greece, prefer now to buy eels from France because they don't want to go through the red tape of filling customs paperwork and interacting with customs officials.

It is not that dramatic. After all, he was able to sell his fish to the Greeks, who do have a strong fishing industry and lower labor costs. So his business must have got some competitive advantage.

He'll probably give a nice promotional discount so it's worth for his customers to do this extra effort. Afterwards they'll get used to the procedure and continue buying from him. A lot of businesses in EU do import stuff from Turkey or China all the time - because they are cheaper there; they can do the same with the UK.

Yes, he will lose some money in the process. Brexit has costs.