This is unnecessary though. You just plug your car in every night like a cell phone and you have full charge every day. Tesla's supercharger network is plenty fast for long trips and adds a nominal amount of extra time.
This is presuming you can charge at home. Many of us cannot. Many of us cannot charge at work. Many of us have to rely on gas station like infrastructure for getting any kind of range. (2-3 minute pit-stops to get full range back)
Even now you can make trips to the super charger on occasion and just pick one where you can get dinner, though this is obviously not as convenient as gas.
You can also move to an apartment with an EV charger (I did) or have one installed. They’re becoming more common.
We have three Teslas out of six parking spots in our apartment building with no charging on site and we do fine.
I rarely use superchargers because the free options are so good, and free. And most of my supercharger visits are around 5-10 minutes which is not bad.
To be fair this is in a big city with a lot of resources.
I’d be the first to agree that not every place is like this, but it’s worth doing a careful check of your area because there are sometimes better options than you think.
A PHEV will get you most of the advantages, but it'll actually need more charging than a full EV or it's just an inefficient ICE car.
Also, can I charge a Nissan Leaf and or Chevy Volt using all the Telsa charging stations? IF I can great if not still these cars aren't for me or people who enjoy frequent road trips. Especially those who expect the same UX as a gas car. In time sure, but not there yet!
Tesla has offered access to their superchargers, but legacy car companies haven’t taken them up on the offer.
Day to day, Tesla’s are better than gas - you don’t have to deal with filling up ever or oil changes etc.
Mid range road trips like you describe are also easy.
Super long cross country trips are doable, but more of a pain since the time spent charging starts to add up (it is a lot cheaper though).
When it is then it makes sense for me to buy one. I'm happy to be driving a 2015 Nissan Sentra that is paid for.
Daily driving and charging at home is much better than filling up and paying for gas.
Trip supercharging adds 45min on a 300mi trip which is worth the trade off today for many.
If you’re making really long trips all the time, your trade off calculation will vary. Most are not.
Probably because Tesla demanded something that they knew other manufacturers won't give them.
They pulled the same PR stunt when they offered their pretty limited patent pool in exchange for all patents of the partaking manufacturers. Nobody wanted to take part because as a result Tesla would have had access to all patents while the others would only have had access to Tesla's patents. A pretty bad deal for everybody except Tesla.
The legacy car companies are held back by the dealer model and failing to execute for ten years giving tesla a massive head start.
I’m not sure they’ll be able to survive the transition. Refusing to support superchargers just makes whatever EVs they do come up with a non-starter. The Electrify America network sucks.
In 2020 from January to October the Model 3 was behind the Audi e-Tron, VW's aging e-Golf, the VW ID.3, the Hyundai Kona, and the Nissan Leaf.
Beyond that I don’t know the specifics (price in Norway, etc.)
On a typical trip from SF to LA in our Model 3 with 300 miles range, you would think you would stop once “for gas” and charge to 100% as that is the mental model coming from a gas car. However, it takes ~45-60 mins to charge to 100% and only ~10-12 mins to charge to 50%, so the much better option is to make 2 stops along the way and only charge to 50% each time.
When you look at it from that perspective, you need to take 10 mins to stretch your legs every 2-2.5 hours of driving or so, which really isn’t a big deal at all and probably good for you. Using that strategy an indefinitely long road trip in an EV really isn’t a burden at all.