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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
EV is great and all, but I don't find EV charging readily available enough yet at this point, and it still takes extra effort to make sure you can find a spot to charge up.
I park on the street at home so I don't have a convenient way to charge up.
Gas is expensive and all, although I've personally never considered it too expensive to the point I would rather drive EV to cut costs. I have no issue with the range, but I just don't want to worry about not being able to find places to charge up when I need to. Not really practical for my lifestyle. I have friends that pre-plan everywhere they go and select restaurants to go eat out based on whether it's close enough to a charging station, lol.
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Pretty sure they aren't telling you the whole story.
I've had my leaf since August, and in the beginning, had the dreaded range anxiety but now, it's not a big thing. I know how far I can go with the charge left in my batteries. I know where all the chargers are and have adjusted my lifestyle a tad to live with the EV.
I park in a parkade with no access to an outlet so my only charging comes from public chargers. 20 mins at the SC fast chargers is more than enough charge per day. Let it charge for 30 mins and I get 2 days commuting to work.
From 9% battery, 45 mins gets me up to 80% at the fast chargers.
Lvl 2 chargers take longer, but again it's not that bad.