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The escape quickly argument is a good one to challenge. You'd be better off with a full tank of gas, and it's the same with EV, charge to 100%. All good, but I can pump my car to 100% in 5 minutes (plus 10 minutes drive to a gas station and back) and I simply can't do it with an EV. Either you're slow charging at home for hours, or driving 10-20 minutes to the DC charger to spend even more minutes charging...

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I find the range argument silly - if I start with a full tank and drive my car until the tank is exhausted, I'll be exhausted too and need several hours of rest. In the case of an EV, I'll just plug it in and charge overnight while I rest and recharge myself. I can't remember a single ICE car I have driven that I could safely use up the tank in a single drive - If I could, I'd be the king of Le Mans.

The only issue is the possible surprise long drive, when you need to jump into your car and drive for a long time immediately. It's doable with an ICE and not great with an EV.

> I find the range argument silly - if I start with a full tank and drive my car until the tank is exhausted, I'll be exhausted too and need several hours of rest.

This seems odd to me. Several times a month I drive more miles in a day than I can get out of one tank of fuel and I don't get exhausted from it. Maybe I have good driving stamina though, I don't know.

My current car does 700+km on one tank. At constant 100Km/h it'd be 7+ hours. It wouldn't even be legal to drive that long in one go.

Legal here. I do about 600 miles a few times per month. Takes me 9-10 hours.

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