EV's. More convenient than ICE cars?

Having my EV a year I can't honestly say they are more convenient that ice cars..sure I get free charging at work, half price tolls and free fuel from solar at home but it's still an extra consideration if you planning a road trip around where will I charge etc.. day to day I don't care but I'm going to Manchester via Scotland in a few weeks and I need to plan where chargers are etc on the route.. no need to do that with petrol or diesel.. it's by no means terrible but it's not as convenient as knowing I could pull into a petrol station twice on the journey and fill up with petrol or diesel in five minutes and be on my merry way.. am I going to sell my EV and go back to ice? Absolutely not.. I'm all in on ev.. but to say they are more convenient that ice is a cod especially if doing a journey of several hundred miles

I find it a bit more annoying going to Donegal which I do a good few times a year but outside of that it has been easier than an ice car and far cheaper. My last car was far more expensive to fuel and tax but I have similar performance and day to day it is a dream to run.

That is me being cheap by not bothering with the M1 charger and using the granny cable when I get there.

I will say though that there’s no way I’d go Bev with out off street home charging.

Why on earth do you not simply charge at night? 😂

Not strictly true, they all have weight and speed ratings, it is not just the width and profile you need to match up.

EV's are generally heavier and consequently require a higher load rated tyre.

Who is in denial over this? The more common issue is people over exaggerating the inconvenience for what might be a once or twice a year event

Drove 1800km roundtrip last year in my EV across 2 days. Stopped twice each way, 20 mins average per stop.

Planning took all of 5 mins, banged my destination into ABRP and it figured out the charging stops

Didn't queue once, chargers all worked. I doubt I'd have made the trip any quicker with an ICE, I ended up stopping for more bathroom breaks than charging stops and I was exhausted after that distance, so I needed the breaks

So I think the delusion is on the part of the ICE drivers 😉

The tolerance thing is a key overlooked aspect.

Theres a definite variation in how individuals react to EV life even in similar usage case circumstances.

Im an EV enthusiast and would still have one even if no home charging not because its a good or bad idea but because i would want to own an EV badly enough to deal with the issues that present themselves

Another vote in the "EVs are more convenient column" - for us.

last 18 months, we've home charged bar 2 family holidays (one to Co. Clare, the other to South of France). All of our on the road stops would have happened anyway, and on each occasion the car was charged and ready to go before it's occupants had had a pee, snack and run around the play areas of the rest stops.

Only twice did I think it was less convenient:

• There was one stop in France that we needed to drive 10 minutes out of the way to get to the better rest stop (with Ionity chargers), but arguably we would have done that anyway since that rest stop also has a McDonalds with a pretty epic playground in it.
• Our holiday home didn't have home charging, and the wiring was a tad archaic so I never really trusted it for granny charging. For the 4 weeks, I used a few AC chargers in the local town about 3km away. It was fine for 2 weeks, but by week 4 I was a bit tired of working it into our schedule.

So bar that, we are part of the 30 seconds to plug in, charge while we eat and sleep gang which couldn't be easier. I hated having to either leave earlier to allow for time to get petrol, or on way home stop within sight of home to refill. And with 2 toddlers, it was a real ballache when pay at the pump didn't work. Ironically, the only time I didn't mind stopping was on 200km+ drives when I'd be gasping for a coffee.

It isn’t clear to me what you what is being challenged? That one can consider the conveniences/inconveniences of an ev and an ice for drivers with different living circumstances? If so I think one can. That my opinion on the how the conveniences/inconveniences weigh up for all drivers is incorrect? Then yes this may indeed be wrong but what I have seen, heard and experienced so far brings me to my conclusion.

do I charge an EV at home? No. Have I said that someone with an ev who believes it is more convenient for them is wrong? No. I would say that the statement of mine quoted acknowledges that home charging is a convenience.

The question in the title does not refer to any given person or to one’s own experience. Some may feel the question asked should be answered only for oneself, but I disagree. I think overall ICE is more convenient with consideration to the different circumstances of every driver.

Because there are EV owners for some reason that have become some sort of EV zealots that are starting threads claiming that the few minutes it takes to put fuel in a ICE is some sort of major inconvenience.

For most people it's not, never has been, never will be.

The same EV zealots will also claim without a hint of irony that a hour stopover waiting for and charging their EV when you only really wanted to stop for 20mins at the Obama Plaza is not an inconvenience.