No. of Recommendations: 11
This is the unexpected joy of home charging. You don't realize what a hassle it is to go to the gas station until you don't need to do it.
I pooh-poohed this benefit … until I got an EV. Under normal circumstances standing around while you fill up is merely a waste of time and occasionally smelly hands from gas residue on the handle; during cold weather, a storm, or high winds it’s truly a pain (I now realize.) Plugging in in the garage? Priceless.
Of course if I want that truly time wasting experience i can recreate it just by finding a public charger and standing around for a while, but why?
Good ideas often get some pushback at first. Automated elevators were resisted at first because people wanted “someone” to push the button, as it always had been done. Shopping carts were unsuccessful until the inventor hired actors to push them around so customers could see how much ore convenient they were. I myself, didn’t realize the life changing quality of cable internet’s “always on”, and thought “dialing in to AOL” was just fine, thank you very much.
Sometimes you just have to be there for it. I have a sister-in-law who just got a smart phone two years ago. “Why would I need that?” she asked. Then she found Waze, and it was a revelation.
