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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Affordable I get. The 10m charging is one thing ICE drivers still get wrong. I have spent less time waiting to charge my car over the past year than you’ve spent pouring gas. And that’s counting times I was actively doing something else (but stopped mostly for charging).
I come home, I plug in, I go sleep. That’s 90% of my days, should I really optimize my car for the 1 roadtrip a month vs all the other days?
For some reason people have this mindset of "I must be in my car when I charge it". I see it a lot when I go to DC fast chargers, which really only make sense on road trips. People sitting there in their car charging it up to 100%, which they do every time it needs a charge.
I've had conversations with people at charging stations where I explained that they should be charging at home and the reacted like it was the first time they even considered the possibility. If you only use fast chargers of course you are going ng to have a bad experience. That is a terrible way to operate an EV day to day, but it somehow became the default for a lot of people.
There's a mall near where I live that has a fast charger and about 6 L2 chargers. The L2 chargers are also cheaper per kWh -you're paying for convenience with the fast charger, not electricity. But if you're going to the mall for an hour or three and your battery is low, why not get a charge that is still cheaper than gas (where I live, at least)? And if the charging app supports it, you can track when your charge is complete and move your car to save money and free the charger up for someone else. I don't know ow why more malls near me don't have many or any chargers.
There's also a theater with an L2 charger a couple blocks away. It's a good excuse to walk a bit and have more charge after the movie is over.
But charging at home really is a game changer, even with an L1 charger. Adding about 50 km or range in 10 hours for a pittance is hard to beat. And one of the best perks of where I work is they let me charge at work. It doesn't take much more charge than a block heater and doesn't cost them more than $100 per year, but having that extra range when I leave work every day is so nice.
Similar for putting chargers at gas stations. Why would you want that? Most local gas stations should be shut down as no longer needed. Charging is a little different from refueling and one of those differences means never again going to a local gas station