I find it to be incredibly easy.

For example, in my day to day, I charge primarily at work, because my company allows me 5 hours a day on a 6 kw charger. My battery's about 60 kwh, so I can put in a half battery's worth of power, or about 120 miles of range, for about $3 per session. That's the cost of about 60% of one gallon of gas now, and I go 120 miles off of it.

And even though it's a slow charger, I don't feel any of that time, because I'm just inside working.

If you charge overnight at home, same story. You plug it in when you get home, and it slow charges, but you don't care because you're not waiting on the car, you're living life in your house and sleeping overnight.

To plan longer trips, there are websites you can use where you say, "I'm starting here, I'm going there, this is which car I drive, and these are the brands of charger I want to use," and it will plot the entire route for you with level 3 charging stops the entire way. That's what I mean by "a little planning"... literally 3 to 5 minutes on a website.

Nah, I've been driving an EV since '23 and I can affirm that it's pretty damn easy.

Yeah. I live in an apartment. There's nowhere to plug one in at home or at work, so the convenience just isn't there. If I was living in a house when I bought my car I would have considered it, but a combustion engine car was just so much cheaper.

Which leads into the next thing - regressive costs. EVs have a higher up-front cost, but a lower total cost of ownership, particularly if you live in a house. If you can't afford that up-front cost or don't have a convenient way to charge it, like, say, because you live in an apartment, you may be stuck with getting an ICE vehicle and wind up spending more money over the life time of the vehicle. This is a contributing factor in the poor staying poor and the wealthy, or even just middle-class in this case, having lower expenses.

EV chargers are scattered around in a way that gas stations aren't because EV chargers aren't their own separate stop the way gas stations are. With gas, the refilling process is short enough that you can reasonably just stand around and wait while it happens. But with EV charging, it takes long enough that you need some other reason to be at the place where the charger is, and so having nothing attached but a shitty convenience store isn't good enough. The chargers end up relatively out of the way because they need to be put in places people already want to spend time at for other reasons.

I’m very never seen a broken Tesla supercharger. I know they exist, but they’re rare enough that I’ve never seen one

You're focusing on something that's a small percentage of driving for most people. Focusing on the 1% of the time exception case prevents a lot of the positive experience that could be going on 99% of the time.

But even with that, you're also not accurate on the actual experience of an EV road trip, I see a lot of incorrect assumptions in what you're saying. I don't think it's any kind of maliciousness on your part, just lack of knowledge.

First of all, I'm not constantly and dangerously checking my phone for the next charging station info while driving like you have said.

I'm only ever focused on getting to the next charger. Just like you'd get to any other destination.

I leave home with 100% battery and the idea, okay, first I'm going to stop at X charger at the 160 mile point from here, it's just off the main interstate I'm taking to my destination. I share its address into Waze or Google Maps or whatever, just like navigating to anywhere else... this takes like three seconds every time, and I'm not driving when I do it.

When I get there, I come off the highway and GPS navigate to it like any other destination.

I arrive, plug up, and while the car charges over the next 10 to 15 minutes, I use the bathroom, get drinks or a snack or whatever, set the NEXT charger's address into the navigation. Once I have enough charge to get to it, I unplug, drive off. and the next leg starts. So on and so forth, until I arrive to the ultimate destination.

The main difference on the trip between the EV and the gas car is that I pre-plan the fuel stops before I start the trip, instead of just impromptu stopping when I'm low on gas. That's literally it.

And again, that planning takes less than 5 minutes to do, at my convenience, and before the trip actually starts. I'm totally fine with paying that tiny bit of time on occasional road trips to avoid all of the extra time and expense of maintaining an entirely unneeded gas car.

if you're taking a trip on an electric vehicle, you have to set your app up before you start driving to find the next charger

If you're driving long distance you're probably using an app anyway. All EVs have navigation built in. You just type in the destination and the car will automatically route you to chargers as necessary.

Bro, my EV literally tells me where the chargers are, how much they cost and how many are in use. Don't have to open an app.