In 10 Years A Gas Powered Car Will Make As Much Sense As A Horse Drawn Carriage

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2. Speaking from experience, our infrastructure is not there yet for all electric cars.

That is why a good plug-in hybrid like the RAV4 Prime is garnering $10k above sticker, if you can find one on dealer lots. People want electic, but need a gas engine too. A plug-in hybrid gives you the best of both worlds: it drives like an EV around town for 40 miles or so. But if you have to hit the highway for a long jaunt or road trip, you have the hybrid engine to rely on, so that you're not tied to your home charging station.

EV charging times are still way too long to be practical. Most take many hours to charge the battery, usually overnight. Charging stations are unreliable, often out of order, and are run by a hodgepodge of entities, each requiring you to get their own charge cards that only work at their particular stations, with customer service so bad it makes the cable companies look good. I have an electric car (Chevy Bolt) and the range anxiety sucks. I have to rent a gas car every rime I want to go on a road trip, or more than 75 miles from home. After 2 years of this torture, I'm done. I plan to get a RAV4 Prime as my next car....if I can find one.