Lol, I'm a skeptic, so I guess it'll be a while
I don't want to ever buy an ICE again. Forgetting all the other benefits, electric is so much more fun to drive.
A couple months ago I thought I might have a fight on my hands to keep the road trip EV. One of our EV, the Chevy Bolt, is not appropriate as a road trip car. It fast charges much to slowly. But it is a great commuter car for getting to and from work and around town. The other EV is a Ford Mustang Mach e. It can charge over three times faster than the Bolt is well suited for road trips.
My wife's brother had a heart attack, he is fine, and she needed to drive to see him, a 300 mile round trip that would require a short DC fast charging stop to complete.
Her choices for the trip were to take the nearly brand new EV or her parents nearly 20 year old car.
My wife had reluctantly agreed to the dual EV scenario. She was a skeptic and not so sure of the practicality.
For the trip she opted for the EV and the ease of the trip finally fully sold her on the practicality of an EV.
For the skeptics to be convinced they are going to need to hear stories from real people they know or experience an EV for themselves. Too much of the media stories are rooted in gloom and doom, focused on edge cases that are rare. Conversely, too many of the user stories are way too rosy and ignore some of the issues.
The story of her trip I wrote on another forum:
Last time she took a trip without me, she was traveling with my daughter and they opted to take my daughters ICE car instead of the MME. This time her choices were to take her parents in their 20 year old car or in the MME and she opted for the MME.
I figured this was it. If the trip went bad we would have to sell both EV on her return.
Since this was an emergency trip we did not manage to get it charged to 100% before she had to leave but did manage to get it to 99% so close enough. This last minute trip is one of the reasons why I always charge the car every night. Worst case we leave at 90%, best case we press the charge to 100% button while packing and get a little more juice like in this example.
We talked about charging options for the return trip. There was an EA station on the way back that made the most sense but also a few stations billed through ChargePoint that were options. I made sure her phone had the Electrify America app, gave her a crash course in activating if plug and charge did not work, and gave her the physical ChargePoint card we have and crossed my fingers.
On her return she had only positive things to say.
Her charging stop was effortless. She pulled up at the EA station, plugged in, and the car started charging at an appropriate rate for her current SOC, 75 kWh, slowly dropping to 55 kWh where it was when she unplugged. She did not have to wait for a spot, did not have to move from one dispenser to another to find a properly working dispenser, and plug and charge worked like it should.
On prior road trips with me I would tell her we could stop charging as we had enough to either make it to the next charger or our destination but she would always insist we charged just a little longer, often times charging until 90% at her insistence. This time though she was the one doing the EV math and stopped at 78%, not even waiting to get to 80%, because she knew that was enough to get back home with a 25% or so cushion based on the percentage used on the outbound leg of the trip. She arrived home at 28%.
Her parents enjoyed the trip as well. Whenever they have ridden in the MME they have been hyper focused on range. Asking me every few minutes how many miles range does it have left? Afraid we are going to run out of power driving the 8 miles round trip to the restaurant. She said they did ask her often but she finally told them to just look at the CarPlay arrival percentage. That a rough estimate of how much range they would have at the destination was to multiple that percentage by 3. She said that seemed to satisfy their range anxiety.
I am relieved it went well and that we do not have to sell our EVs.