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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) recharge time.

2) charging infrastructure.

3) battery fires.

In the near future, homeowners policies will specifically exclude/prohibit policy holders from keeping an EV inside a garage or structure attached to the home. [/quote]

All three of these things are vastly overstated by non-ev owners.

Charging time at home is completely irrelevant - I plug it in whenever I get home and it's full whenever I leave. Every single one of us has at least 8 hours a day of free charging time, which is more than enough for any EV. Charging on a trip is also negligible. Charging stops are 20 minutes every 2.5 hours of driving. Considering very few people are taking 5+ hour trips without stopping for gas, or food, or bathroom breaks at least once, you're looking at a few minutes of extra time at most.  I drove my Tesla from DC to Savannah recently and it added 1 hour to a 10 hour trip. Considering I ate while I was charging really it was only about 30 minutes more than a gas car would have taken assuming they stopped for a meal along the way.  That's nothing.

Charging infrastructure is also a nonissue unless you're going somewhere incredibly remote. Every interstate in the country has enough coverage to get you from one charger to the next with battery to spare. Dense corridors like 95 have chargers every 10-15 miles.  And since modern EVs have 200+ miles of range, even if you're going off-interstate, you'd have to go 100 miles into the wilderness before you didn't have enough charge to get back.

And battery fires are probably the dumbest thing to be worried about. They make the news because "new thing scary!" so every EV fire is a national story while zero gas fires are. As others have pointed out, EVs are safer than gas vehicles when it comes to fires. [/quote]

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