FWIW I've been driving EV since 2015. Back then I was doing 35K miles a year (and whilst infrastructure may not be great now, it certainly wasn't then!)
I can charge at home. If I didn't ... I doubt I would have been in a hurry to get one.
But I will continue to argue the case against them being forced on us because we do seem to be in agreement that they are not and never will be suitable for everyone.
I agree not suitable for everyone. I think that's a small number. Norway (special case, but representative of "what's possible") is close to 100% new cars sold EV, and 50% of all cars on the road are now EV. They have a number of sweet spots - copious hydro electric, massive sovereign wealth fund from oil which facilitated "no VAT on new EV purchase" initial incentives (since rolled back as numbers grew). And, no one (huge sweeping statement!) in Norway wants a 2nd hand ICE, but they can sell them to "anywhere in EU", and Norway currency is low just now, so living in neighbouring country and buying your 2nd hand ICE from Norway would be a good deal. Thus more Norwegians are incentivised to buy new, and
second hand, EVs. Forecourt Petrol pumps being replaced with EV chargers as demand for Petrol falls ... so they are getting to the point where ICE drivers have to pre-plan where they are going to fill up!!
Apart from their hydro power benefit, they seems to have done a good job of exploiting their first-mover advantage
I think we could see a significant take up similarly, and that will bring with it a fall in price of 2nd diesels and increased price of Petrol/Diesel maybe? if not that then harder to find places selling it. I know supermarkets like to make money ... but what if they wake up one morning and say "Its starting to look really bad selling fossil fuels, get rid of all the pumps"
Thing is, they can catch fire, have caught fire and is far more ferocious than a normal car fire.
Statistics I have seen say they catch fire less than ICE cars. I'm not sure if that statistic is level-playing field, for example almost all EV are brand new, plenty of ICE are really really old. They don't catch fire quickly (so ability to escape a car that catches fire is better than having a tank of petrol finding a way to catch fire), but they are a nightmare to put out and burn very hot for a very long time (emerging tech for firefighters to address that, I expect). Luton airport car park fire was made worse by ICE fuel (I can't remember if diesel or petrol) escaping, running into all the drains / downpipes and then catching fire. That spread is a snag for ICE fires ... but getting INTO a multi-storey and NEAR an EV to put out a fire in an enclosed space is a challenge.
I think some good / some bad for both. Either of them catching fire in your attached garage in the middle of the night is probably a similarly bad outcome.
Until I can charge an EV in the time it takes me to fill my 90 litre tank then charging time is too long.
If you don't have off road parking / charging then, yeah. If you do .. .then I don't agree, although my wife does!
Back in 2015 I was out-of-range and charging 2x a month. 20 minutes at a time. I'm sitting there with my wife who says "This is annoying"
So me, smart arse, says "30,000 miles ICE fill ups were 5 - 10 minutes ... that's 8 hours a year. 20 minute charge, 2x a month, that's 8 hours a year"
My wife, predictably, says "That's not the same".
Actually, my view would be that if you can use that time it is very different. ICE = stand-and-pump and (most people, or so it seems to me, stand-and-queue-to-pay).
EV = plug in an do something else. Me: I did emails, that I would otherwise have to do when I got home. So for me that was just a time shift and cost me no time.
Since then I have replaced that 250 mile real world range EV with a 300 mile range, and now my away from home fill ups have dropped to one or two days a year, because almost all my journeys in UK don't exceed 300 miles, and increasingly friends I stay with have car chargers I can use if I stay for a weekend, or even a few hours.
We have driven to Alps ski resort for decades, its 12-ish hours door-to-door. ICE probably had range of 600 miles, we would drive 2 - 3 hours, stop in a layby, swap drivers, carry on. We were young .. we arrived knackered.
Now with EV we stop for lunch (same as we did before) and the car fills 10% - 100%, and we make 3 additional 20 minute stops. We get out, stretch our legs, have a pee and a coffee. It takes an extra hour to get there, we are now well into retirement age and yet we arrive fresh as a daisy. I greatly regret the "press on, don't stop" attitude we had when younger.
Range anxiety: that's mostly a newbie issue. I'm a nerd, so some planning before a trip doesn't bother me, but the SatNav will tell me, very accurately (I've done 200K miles in EV, never got caught out, so I am now confident in the car's prediction), what my arrival %age will be, and if I need to stop it will navigate to suitable locations and so on. Its definitely different. Its definitely not hard, unless change-resistant, but I understand why a newbie would be concerned.
Just my 2p-worth
