I haven’t suffered hate as much as incredulity. People who’ve never owned an who just don’t understand why anyone would own a car that can “only go 200 miles”. I mean seriously? How many days a year does one ACTUALLY drive more than 200 miles at a sitting? I commute roughly 60 miles a day in total which is actually on the high side in the USA and I’ve never had a single issue with that even if I have to run around and pick up supplies. Heck, on Wednesday I ended up driving over 100 miles that day because I had to drive to a supplier to pick up a bunch of material and wasn’t worried in the slightest about the range in my car. I start every day with a 90% charge and a warm cabin (yay preconditioning!)

Even as bad as Electrify America has gotten, I’ve also driven my car long distances on a number of occasions and it’s been a nonissue. Recently had to visit a customer in Minneapolis (about 600 miles) and I drove up one day, spent two days with the customer and then drove home on the Saturday. It was a nice and relaxing drive with zero stress about charging. It did help that the hotel had chargers, but even if it hadn’t it wouldn’t have been an issue.

I think the weirdest experience I ever had was charging at an EA station and having the EA maintenance guy trying to tell me how terrible all electric cars were for the environment and how they were just a fad that would fizzle out when the “woke media get bored with the story”.