For many folks, including yourself, Joe, the inconvenience is a no-brainer or perhaps you don’t see inconvenience at all. You are fortunate. I am in a very nice apartment community — with no fast charging — and my office parking lot does not have any charge stations nor do the adjacent parking lots nearby). And this is in dense suburbia outside a major city. If I was back in my house, maybe the situation would be different.

Until I can find a convenient charging solution for everyday driving, it does not seem practical for me to drink the Kool Aid. If you live in a city or an apartment complex today — in 2021 — EV charging can be more than a mild inconvenience. Someday, that will change but it will take quite some time to solve the challenge in urban environments.

BTW… the hotel we stayed at did not have a convenient way to charge this near-stranded traveller. Neither the hotel nor the driver had a long enough extension cord (the parking lots were not near the actual hotel building). Even if there were an outlet nearby, charging from 110 outlet would have taken quite some time for a near-dead battery. In an ICE vehicle, she could have found multiple gas options within 2 miles of the hotel and been on the road in 5 minutes. Fear of the described situation is what keeps many from jumping into EV’s with both feet.