Subject: Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?
It's not because of the fuel price that people are rejecting EVs. It is the inconvenience of having to continually charge the darned thing, and the short range between charges.

This is the common perception among most Americans that have not experienced an EV in their every day lives. For a non home owner it could be accurate if they do not have the ability to charge at their home. However, for the vast majority of the american home owning population i think they would be quite surprised at the convenience of EV ownership. I also believe it was a huge mistake for manufacturers to put EVs in the rental car fleets because the hotel charging infrastructure is massively lacking making many first EV experiences very poor.

We have owned two different EVs now over the last 7 years and we have no desire to buy another internal combustion engine vehicle. Our current EV can go 250+ real world miles in most weather conditions. No one really considers how few times a year they actually drive further than that in a day and for us it turns out it is very few times and typically on a weekend and/or holiday week. Once our current aging gas powered Toyota is due for replacement we will buy a second EV and not own any internal combustion vehicles (exception for a nice classic). Should we have the need to drive more than 300-400 miles in a day that would be a bit of an inconvenience in an EV, we would simply rent something or fly.

We rarely think about the cost advantage of electricity vs gas anymore because the sheer convenience of charging at home and virtually zero maintenance makes EV ownership (for us) a no brainer. Our all in pricing for our electricity (monthly connection fee + transport fee + generation and fuel costs) runs right at $0.14/kwh. Our current EV is a truck and we average just over 2mi/Kwh so cost is ~$0.07/mi for electricity. I think it would be difficult to find any half ton truck that would average over 25-30mpg to get close to $0.10/mi at current fuel prices in the US.

EVs don't make sense for many use cases and personal situations but they can for a large portion of the population. Keep an open mind. Whether it's combustable hydrocarbons, steam, or excited electrons it's all just stored potential energy to propel our meat carcasses where we want to go.

Jeff