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I've long said that EVs aren't practical for most people unless you can charge where you normally park. That's the whole key.
That said, what you have described is the opposite of what I've experienced in my decade as an EV owner. Reason is that if the battery is low, you simply charge it when you park the car. It is second nature. The result is you never have the "oh crap, I'm leaving the house, but I need to get gas on my way" moments. Which means you never have to stop off and get gas when you are running errands. It is an unexpected delight. On the other board, EV owners have described the same feeling.
Right. If you can charge where you park, and if you remember to charge every time (or most times) you park, then there's no issue.
But if you can't charge where you park, then things require a lot more thought. And even if you can charge where you park, you still need to make sure that you actually do that on a regular basis - which requires attention to fueling on a near-daily basis that ICE owners don't have to deal. For some people, that sort of thing comes very easy to them. I imagine most early-adopter EV drivers fall into that category. Me, I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached - I know that if I had an EV, even if I had the ability to charge at home (which I don't) I'd end up forgetting to do it far more often than I'd remember.
Where range anxiety kicks in is the marginal trips, where you should have enough range to get there and back but it will be close. That when you start worrying about running the climate controls and such.
Right - which is going to happen far more often in everyday scenarios than the long-distance road trips that often get mentioned as having easy solutions to range anxiety. Because EV's have smaller "tanks" than ICE's, you're going to spend more of your driving time closer to the bottom of the "tank" than you would in a gas car unless you're meticulous about near-daily charging.
