IF you do the math, even for the at home case you spend more time charging the electric car than filling the gas car. The difference is with the electric car part of your routine is pulling the cord off the wall at night and hanging it back up in the morning, and it only takes a minute extra. With a gas car every once in a while - never on schedule you have to make a separate stop that adds 10 minutes. Over the course of a month less time was spent getting gas, but with the electric it is part of the routine do you don't think about it.
It takes me no more time to plug the car in than it does to grab my bag out of the car. Probably less, since the cord is on the driver's side, and plug is up front, so I'm walking that way anyway.
Seriously. This is about 4 seconds of “work” on my way to get my bag from the trunk.
I don’t think people realize the plug has a button which pops open the charging door on it.
It literally takes less time than unscrewing and rescrewing on a gas cap.
Unplugging is even faster. Put hand on charging plug. Press button with thumb. Wait one second for clicking noise signaling that charging is stopped/unlocked. Pull out plug. If the car was fully charged (to the set charging point, e.g. 90%) then even the button click is not needed because it will already be unlocked. Just pull out the plug.
I do have an ideally located wall charger so there is not even a “coil cord” or “uncoil cord” step.
Waking up every morning with a charged (and warm!) car is a pleasure.
I know it’s possible to auto-schedule the climate control warm-up but haven’t bothered with that yet, I jump into the app and click it on after making my coffee.
I'm not disagreeing. However most people do not realize how much time it is costing them to do that act each day. (obviously how much time it costs depends on the specifics of your parking situation)
I just think you're stretching it. I walk past my charger in the garage to get to the door to the house so plugging it in and unplugging it is literal seconds of my time. The convenience far outweighs that.
