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I mean.... it depends on your requirements. The charge time is most of the time the dealbreaker, because humans are lazy, with an EV you can not just go "oh i forgot to fuel up, lets go to the next gas station and fill it up in seconds" rather "Oh i forgot to plug in my EV after a long drive, guess i will have to wait some hours".
But still EVs can take you far and it gotten pretty far in the technology, but i guess the battery still holds personally me off buying one.
If you have a garage at home, this is a moot point. 98% of driving is not long trips, and the vast majority of homes are 2 car households. It makes sense that one of them should be an EV
I don't drive my own vehicle to work, it's only used on weekends and holidays, so closer to 50% of the driving I do is long trips.
Installing the charging equipment is also a cost consideration.
Why I said two car households are great for it. One of them can be gas. The other one can be EV. That's what I do, we have the EV for the 98% of driving we do in the city, groceries, errands, commuting, whatever. Never buy any gas for that, charge it when we get home. Have the gas car for long trips. We have yet to come across a time of when that wouldn't have worked in our family
If you only drive on weekends and holidays, level 1 charging is actually good enough. The cost of a level 2 charger is pretty insignificant to the price of a car, but every bit helps.