At a constant 70mph, that is over 7 hours continuous driving (...although I wonder how much range decreases at that speed?)
I do wonder what the magic numbe needs to be before people stop complaining that x00 miles is not enough and that they reguarly drive 19000 mile a day etc.
A brand new Model 3 will do 310 miles of range. Only you're not supposed to use the top 10% or bottom 10% unless you absolutely have to, to avoid damaging the battery. So now it's 248 miles of range. Unless it's extremely cold or hot, or you have a heavy foot, or you have a roof rack, or it's uphill... Where 200 miles might be more accurate.
My 18-month old Model 3 will do 301 miles, which means best-case 240 miles reality unless I want to damage the pack (more).
I actually love my Tesla, and the pack degradation is fine, and there are lots of other benefits....
But when someone says "500 miles range" I'm going to read that as "probably ~350 miles real range after a year of ownership and if it's cold or something".
This isn't much different from ICE cars mileage estimates. Getting the actual mileage out of my Subaru is possible if I'm very careful with the gas-pedal, don't have a bike on the back of the car, etc etc. If I drive at 70 miles an hour for the whole tank, my range drops by 15-20%.
I know Chevy bolts have extra capacity so you aren’t causing permanent conditioning at low capacity. Never heard of not driving when at full. Only not to fast charge above 80%, which the car and charging stations manage for you.
And as for cold weather, yes you do lose some range, but in warm weather you gain range. I get close to 280 on my bolt (rated 238) in the summers.
At least 50% of the time i've tried to DC fast charge, stations just don't work. In fact, there is a station near me that has 2 of 4 chargers not working for the past 2 months. (I've called and used the phone app to report problems)
For the "same price as Tesla" EV competitors, you get an admittedly slightly nicer car, with the massive downside of charging infra. And it's just too much money for me to spend to not be able to be confident on a roadtrip.
This isn't a given. Money-efficiency in the UK at least is only good if you charge at home. If you pay on-street prices for electricity, you can easily spending more per mile than a gas car.
Eg. An electric car might do 330 Wh/mile. A recharge on the road would cost £3 (connection fee) + £0.30 per kWh. That means if you top up 25 kWh, you'll end up paying £10.50, and able to travel 76 miles, or £0.138 per mile. A typical 2018 gas car gets 50.8 imperial mpg costing £0.108 per mile at todays gas prices in London.
Overall, unless you can charge at home, an electric car will cost you more per mile for fuel/electricity alone.
Tesla charges around £0.24 per kWh in the UK, and there is no connection fee. In that case for 25 kWh you'd be paying £6, which would get you 100 miles of range. Or £6 / 100 = £0.06 per mile.
£0.06 per mile vs £0.108 per mile. That's way cheaper for the Tesla.
Some of the other fast charging networks are indeed more expensive than Tesla, but they are also getting cheaper. Plus if you charge at the L2 chargers, like a lot of people generally do for charging at work, it's even cheaper.
Ideally we'd just move to a carbon tax, to punish EVs a little bit and ICEs a ton, but I suspect that governments are going to aggressively pursue taxing EV miles in the near future once penetration hits double digits.
Governments are currently attempting to incentivize EVs, but as soon as the shift is happening rapidly and looks inevitable, they absolutely will start to see the money left on the table that they once took.
Of course this is more a European thing (and Australian where I'm from). US gas taxes are famously low.