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The biggest savings being time, and this doesn't really hit home until you realize that you never have to divert to a gas station during rush hour because you can't put it off for a sixth day in a row. For all the discussion about how you might have to spend an extra ten minutes charging on a 400 mile road trip, very few people talk about the literal hours saved never visiting a gas station the rest of the time.
It’s seems like a small thing, to buy petrol, but it’s just one more thing to do and with EV it’s not a problem.
But having a slow charging EV does rather hamper road trips; the issue is that most people overvalue the time they’ll be spending at the charger vs weekly petrol stops.
And in new cars it really isn't that slow. 20 minute fill-up is well within the range of "go inside, go pee, get coffee come back"