The reason for my concerns earlier expressed is, that I have been toying with the idea of owning an EV. It's all good and fine using the supercharger network and all, but it takes time during your journey. If I visit my parents 300 kms away for the weekend, I'll be able to get there with a long range EV like a Tesla. Realistically that is. It doesn't go 500 km on a charge in real life. Probably not even 400, if I'm using the heater or the air conditioning. Or if I'm driving the permitted 130 km/h on the motorway.
To illustrate that, Renault has a homepage, where you can see the real range of the Renault Zoe. A car with a 400 km range according to the standard test. You can choose outside temperature, use of heater or A/C, wheel size and speed. No matter what I do, I can't get it over 388 km. That's with a speed of 50 km/h (around 30 mph). Good luck with that on the motorway! If I go to 100 km/h, the range drops to 231 km. And at the permitted motorway speed of 130 km/h it's only 163. And that's at 20 degrees outside temperature and no heating nor A/C. If we set the temperature at more realistic 10 degrees and turn the heater on, the range is 157 km. My point is, that a Tesla must also be sensitive to speed, temperature and all, so the realistic range is far from the promised 500 km. So after driving the 300 km to my parents', the battery must be rather close to empty.
Anyway, my point is, it would be nice to be able to charge the EV during the weekend, while I visit my parents. They live in a flat, so they don't have a garage, where I can charge the EV. Of the two large companies, that have charging stations in Denmark, only one has charging facilities near my parents'. They are only 200 metres away, which is great. They are 11 W chargers with a Type 2 connection. I don't know, what that is, but other charging stations have CHAdeMO and/or CCS connections. If my EV can't use that charger, there are no chargers within walking distance. So I would have to either take time away from my visit to go somewhere to charge the EV, or I would have to take time away from our home journey and use a supercharger near the motorway. I could of course also have done that on the way over, so the battery wouldn't be completely flat. That is probably the best solution, so I could use the EV for errands in the weekend and be able to drive to a supercharger on the motorway on our way back home. The trouble here would be my wife asking, why that EV is such a good idea, if we have to stop all the time for half hour recharges. Not that my wife is understanding. I'm just giving her the role of the little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes.
What bothers me here is not so much the time for charging and the need for frequent charging. I understand that. The problem is, that not only are there not yet many chargers around, but I can only use some of them. Others belong to another company, where I'm not a costumer. E.ON has a service, where non costumers have to call them on their phone to make them open the chargers. The price is then rather high. And this is at the same time I pay 40 pounds every month to be a costumer at another company. And even worse, some chargers don't even have the connection or the voltage, that fits my EV. Imagine driving around in your ICE car and discovering, that you can't use like 40% of the petrol stations, because the fuel nozzle on the pump doesn't fit your car. And then half the stations charge you twice the price, unless you want to be a costumer at 40 pounds a month.
I know, you can paint a rosy story, like Pekem does, if you are lucky to live and drive, where there are the right kind of charging stations. In Denmark some companies even have free charging if you pay a higher monthly fee. If you can take advantage of that, it can be really cheap to drive an EV. But I also envision scenarios, where it can be quite difficult to drive an EV. At least you need to plan ahead. But once you have learned about the charging stations at a given place, you'll know what to do, every time you return. And you often go the same few places most of the time. So perhaps, like Pekem says, when you are living with an EV and have to deal with the obstacles, it isn't nearly as bad, as many people fear.