The holidays are fast approaching and with them all kinds of awkward conversations with family members who think they know a lot about a lot, but are in fact just walking examples of Dunning-Kruger in action. Not going home is always an option. After all, there's no reason why you should have to spend your free time with people you can't stand. But if you're heading home and aren't looking forward to having to talk to your uncle or parent over heaping plates of turkey and potatoes, we've put together some talking points to debunk their more nonsensical claims about electric vehicles.
Charging an EV takes too long
The number 1 complaint from people who have no experience driving or living with an electric car, and are cited as a reason why they will never buy an electric car, is that it takes too long to charge. On the one hand, this attitude is understandable. For more than a century, people have become accustomed to vehicles that can be refueled in minutes, using highly energy-rich fluids that can be pumped into a fuel tank at a rate of up to 35 liters per minute.
Batteries, on the other hand, don't charge quickly at all, especially if you plug them into an AC charger. Even the fastest fast-charging EVs connected to a fast DC fast charger will still take 18 to 20 minutes to go from 10 to 80 percent, and that's apparently more time than some curmudgeons are willing to wait as they move as quickly as possible driving from coast to coast.
The point is that an EV is a paradigm shift compared to a gasoline car. Yes, filling up that gas car is quick, but it's also difficult, especially if you live somewhere where all the gas stations keep closing.
Instead of weekly trips to the gas station – or perhaps more often in some cases – EV owners plug in their cars every night and wake up every morning with a full battery.
