But it takes HOURS to charge an EV, when I can be in and out of a fuelstop in 5 minutes

Leaving aside the obvious call of bullshit on the 5 minute thing, the number of times we hear this argument it makes us think it's yet another piece of FUD put out by the fossil's to confuse potential EV owners ... yet again.

Our car has a 420(ish)k battery range.

We charge it when at home - either off the solar system when there is excess capacity (ie when the battery has reached the optimum level to keep the house running in the event of an overnight outage when there is no solar input), or in offpeak mostly.

The home based charging system we have allows us to set the thing up to charge on offpeak rates / overnight, immediately, or from the solar (combinations thereof). So mostly it charges when frankly we don't care how long it takes, we're asleep. Or reading a book. Or having a glass of wine. 

So we rarely, if ever, leave the place without 420ks of driving range before we even hit the first town with an EV charger (20ks away). 

As 99% of our trips are those day to day things like heading to the vets, the shops,  the doctors, the pub, or local events, we've rarely need to stop to charge it anywhere - even when a "to the shops" trip takes around 200ks in total, give or take another 20 or so driving around Ballarat, Bendigo or Ararat (mostly). 

On the occasional longer drive, most of our charging stops are dictated by our need for a loo and coffee. We always coincide a "top up" charge with the location of (preferably) both of those. 

The amount of time required for those charges differs based on the capacity of the charger, but for example:

• A stop at a 50kw charger (typically an Evie in our area) would take 5 minutes to add 30ks capacity.
• A stop at a SuperCharger (typically in the larger towns around here, for example Bendigo / Ballarat) would normally take 5 minutes to add 70ks capacity. (Double that with some of the newer supercharger installations).

I don't know about anybody else, but we plug the thing in and head off. (Although I will also admit we've sat in it and watched a YouTube video once because we could ...). I've never yet had the urge to stand there hanging onto the charging cable, had to wash the fuel off my hands or shoes before I got back in the car, or had to monitor the fill / charge. There's an app that tells us what the charge is up to, and in the event it's getting close to fully charged, warns you to return so you're not hogging a charging station. 

Aside from all of that, because you can wander off, we do. I can't do loo, coffee, stroll to and from the car, and be ready to go in under 5 minutes these days (if ever really). Add another 5-10 minutes because we're not that important and don't mind a bit of a sit around sometimes. It would take longer obviously if you're on a big road trip, in which case, we think a driving break sounds like a good idea.

So that's range anxiety / too long to charge down to yet another example of very transparent FUD.

What's next? Oh it'll probably be BUT THEY CATCH ON FIRE. Look up the stats.