But your argument is always centred on the fact that everyone who is pro EV, their lived experience is valid, yet anyone who has a negative experience has "been fed the EV lie" its like trying to have a discussion with a sleep deprived 8 year old who refuses to be objective.
My own personal circumstances have changed recently, so our next car will be fully electric in December, having had a a hybrid, however, for the last three years I had been doing fortnightly shuttles around the country (academy football) and there was no way I wanted to spend Sunday afternoon having been up since 6am finding a charger and waiting over an hour to charge.
This trip to the services would not be one id be doing anyway. That doesn't mean I've been fed the EV lie, or I have range anxiety, it is simply what happened the two times I car shared and did it with my electric car owning friend. It added over an hour each time to the journey.
EV drivers experience (for those with experience and understanding, the more the merrier) is a lot more valid than non EV drivers who have no EV experience, that's kind of the point. Both of us have been driving EV's about 3.5 years or more. I've still never met an EV owner who has gone back to ICE.
For your long trips it doesn't sound like you have destination charger (or one which is decent), but how far is it away, where you travelling to or from? Was it the same journey which was 200-250 miles away? That sounds rough. Maybe I could give you some ideas/ tips. There are a lot of EV drivers who just don't understand optimum charging, for the chargers or their car.
Driving to somewhere just outside of range, or near max range and coming straight back with no destination charger isn't great for EV's, They actually work better if a longer trip like 300 miles, as everyone is doing a stop with this. The max range being the destination is a bit of a weak point.
An hour seems long though, what car was it?
Most of the negative contributions on these threads are from those who have never owned an EV, or have limited experience, or spout proven BS. There's also a big problem with a lot of people not acknowledging the benefits, and believing the scaremongering which is purely created for the creators self interest. Usually those with interest in oil/ right wing aspects etc, or those who realise that scaremongering is great at getting clicks from the vulnerable, which it really is. All sorts of people try to cash in with hot topics and most have self interest to serve.
People seem to forget that pretty much every EV driver (owner) had driven ICE for 20 years or whatever prior too, and have zero intention of going back. They don't think this way to try and get one up on people on a forum. Most of us are trying to provide education and balance to the crap, and there's a lot of it.
I can tell ST annoys the hell out of a lot of people on here on EV threads (maybe all threads), and maybe I do too, but it doesn't mean we're wrong. If all or even some of the negatives were true, or true to the same magnitude then we wouldn't be as pro EV as we are. We both accept that EV's are dogshit for most who don't have home charging (at the minute, but tech will solve this), or those who do loads of round trips with no stops, but they're obviously a tiny minority, so much so it's not worth worrying about unless you do loads of those, where I agree an EV might not make sense (yet).
For me personally it's 30% weighting on basically never having to go fill up or use public chargers, for me I basically spend no time "filling up" and don't miss it. 50% of my reason is the massive cost savings on fuel and maybe 20% on less maintenance and liking the better tech. That's without factoring in for the tax savings, which for a company or company car driver make it a no brainer for most.
