Indeed. If I purchased an EV and followed the advice on this forum I would probably die of caffeine poisoning
I am also puzzled by the contention that maintenance on and EV is less than for an ICE.
In my experience, provided you keep them properly lubricated internal combustion engines run for 100,00 miles or more without needing repairs. Plus he occasional set of plugs
But what does fail re the electrical system: for example I have just spent £800 on anew "body control computer" for my daughter's 5 year old Skoda. What reason is there to believe that the traction electronics on an EV will be any more reliable than the electronics on an ICE?
Taking a break every few hours (even if you had a coffee, which you wouldn't have to do) would still only be 2 coffees for about 7 hours of driving (first break after 3 hours and then the second after 2 hours before arriving 2 hours after that, assuming 200 miles range and 80% charge at each break).
That's hardly going to give you caffeine poisoning.
For that sort of journey time there's a good chance you'd want to eat something. As such it's possible that you'd be down to just one coffee stop.
If the journey was another 2 hours longer, bringing it to 9 hours of driving, chances are people would want to eat twice during that time.
Even if you do that every week, the numbers of people who travel for more than 5 hours more than a couple of time a year is fairly small.
With regards to maintenance, EV's don't need oil in their engines, they don't need their spark plugs changed, they don't have cam belts which need changing, etc. It's why a service is needed fairly frequently.
Whilst EV's do need some maintenance, in comparison if someone did nothing other than change the brakes and tyres then they would likely keep going for 200,000 miles with little problem. Even if the battery was to degrade to 70% of the range, of the original range was 200 miles they would still be able to go 140 miles. Whilst not suitable for those doing high miles, there's plenty of cars which rarely go more than 50 miles and almost never go above 100 miles (certainly lots of second cars, those only used for the school run and/or just to/from work or those who are retired and only do local travel). As such even if the battery wasn't being replaced there would still be people willing to buy them.
Even if the range were to drop to 50% (which is a significant degrading of the battery) there would be some who would still buy it, as it was enough for them.
We get that you believe that EV's aren't suitable for you. However that doesn't mean that they aren't suitable, even with very degraded batteries, for a lot of other people.
Until my grandparents got rid of their cars they rarely, if ever, went more than 20 miles in them for quite a long time. Even before that 100 miles would have been suitable for 99.5% of their travel, even if they couldn't charge whilst out for the day (holidays were one set were typically abroad so only needed to get to the airport).
Whilst my parents would require a longer range for their UK holidays they don't like driving long distances without a break.
Whilst we have family 220 miles away, as long as we could have an EV with a range 280 miles we could be fairly sure we could get there without a break to charge. However with children there's a good chance we'd need to stop for food and/or a loo most trips anyway (even if we ignored that we should take a break every 2 to 3 hours anyway).
Even with that trip being done every 6 weeks, chances are without needing to fill up with fuel over the rest of the time the fact that we could keep it charged up at home would mean that overall we had more time as we wouldn't have to fill it up every few weeks.
Other family members would have similar requirements to us, although some who live between us and the rest of the family could get away with a 200 mile range car. Likewise there's second vehicles within the family where a 100 mile range car would be fine.
