For all the EV drivers of the forum, is it difficult to handle/manage the every day use of an EV (with ~300 miles of tested range) without a dedicated home charging spot? Even if where you can charge is not a problem, it seems that around $0.40-0.50/kwH is almost at if not exceeding the cost of a 30-35 mpg gas car at $3.00/gallon. Please let me know your thoughts!
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With home charging EVs are awesome. Without home charging don’t even bother unless your time is worth nothing.
Nah……… 
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Home charging with solar is the sweet spot.
If it’s not a Tesla, and you’re reliant on EA, Chargepoint or EVGo… oof that’s rough. 
IMO
Please see the previous version of this question as I imagine it gives a little insight:
Are EV’s Practical without At-Home Charging? - Off-Ramp - Leasehackr Forum
I feel it would get old real fast, especially if you drive a lot. Between the cost (although some EVs have some free charging included) and the time that it takes, no thanks. At least it looks like you are in the south. The cold destroys the range on top of everything.
Tesla for ubiquity of DCFC, but they’re absolutely awful about parasitic loss when it comes to state of charge.
I could legitimately leave any one of the BMW BEV’s, and even a long term rental Polestar unplugged for a week plus at a time and worst case scenario I’d see 2% less than where it was left.
A Tesla will still drop that damn near daily if you have sentry mode and cabin overheat set to OFF.
Nope i do not recommend using it without home charger at all. Based on my experience charging at public stations sucks especially during winters and even worse if you live around east coast or mid west.
Without L2 or without any home charging at all, even 110v?
Here-Again-Same Peeps-Same Answers 
I always say YES it is doable, as I’ve been doing it since 2020 Three Teslas, Ioniq 5, Bolt, Toyota Mirai (although not charging it-it is probably about the same)
Never had an issue with Supercharging or EA or EvGo, Las Vegas roadtrips 300+ miles, Central Coast in CA 200 miles each way, NorCal 300+ miles each way… “if you know how-you will how” would it be better if home charging was available-Yes, but not that difficult without and infrastructure has improved exponentially in last 6 years
Like my profile photo says: " Stand For Something-Or Step Aside" 
EDIT: BTW in SoCal electricity that I pay is about $0.25-$0.27 if not more per kWh and Tesla SC is $0.31 and up for the lowest rates around me, so not a big difference either way-but more convenient than 30 minutes at a SC
Yeah, unfortunately, I figured that was the consensus.
@ApexHunt Thank you for linking the other forum, helpful to see other insights.
I guess it’s back to the drawing board 
I think it’s situation dependent. I’ve been doing it for the past year with my Ioniq 5. I have a very short commute though and I am blessed with a tesla station across the street, tesla stations at my targets, and ChargePoint DC station in my downtown area so it’s baked into my routine. Drop it off and grab dinner, lunch, hit the gym up, grocery shopping, or just go for a stroll.
How far is the nearest level 3 charger from your house? How busy is it?
Yes. I drove my Ioniq 5 for a year and charged exclusively at Electrify America while it was a free promotion. I drove 10K miles and saved $2000! The equivalent gas cost for a 35 MPG car would have been over $1300.
Now, I charge at home with a L1 charger in my garage. It’s $.26/kwh which is $.07 per mile. I get 50 miles of charge while plugged in overnight.
The equivalent gas would cost $.13 per mile. So it’s about half the price of gas.
Your in Florida. Depends on how your usage is as well. If you drive 100 miles a day vs 10 miles a day, how busy are your local EA chargers usually etc. For some charging outside is not an issue as they can plug in their cars and enjoy some me time or just taking a walk to the nearby target etc.
But keep in mind you can still charge at home using a 220 volt outlet as well if needed.
So it is definitely doable but depends on how much time you can devote to it and how constructive you can be with that time your spending at charging outdoors.
We have 3 EVs (Lucid Air, Cadillac Vistiq, and Chevy Equinox EV), only a single 110v charger in our garage due to an old electric system. We’ve been fine but I only drive about the Air 3 miles R/T to work and my wife the Vistiq only about 10 miles each day. Our Nanny similarly uses the Equinox about 10 miles per day. We charge the Vistiq the most (over night), Equinox during the day, and the Air every two weekends or so. I’ll also utilize the cheap public charging our town has when convenient. We’ve used the EVgo and EA networks when traveling and those have worked out fine as well.
We live in NJ and the cold temps recently have killed the range; sometimes by like 40% when it got really cold - mainly on the Vistiq. It hasn’t been an issue but more annoying than anything. Other than that we love the car and we’ve similarly been really happy with both the Air and Equinox.
We’re going to be upgrading our electric as part of a bigger renovation this year and plan to install a level 2 charger, so should make it even easier but it’s definitely do-able without home fast charging if you don’t drive a ton.
Came here to say the same thing. After moving out of my house with charging, it was a royal pain to keep my tesla charged, too much anxiety. And the charger network in PA sucks. So at the end of my lease i went back to ICE. I really don’t like my gas car, hut it was the only option.
I’ve had an electric plug-in hybrid, and even with that I would not want to have it unless I was able to charge at home. That’s the only way any kind of electric makes sense in my option.
It’s hard. I leased one and the opportunity costs are not worth it. If I had access to a charger, at my leisure, I would do it again.
We plugged our 1st EV into a regular outlet (2-3 miles per hour charge). It worked fine as my wife was WAH and our son mostly drove it to highschool 8 miles away. The issues start when you drive more than the outlet’s ability to recharge - Lot of driving on back to back days means finding a super charger. My town has one EA supercharger with 2 spots and one is always down. Now you are hunting for a charge and sitting around.
Installed a level 2 charger at home and now we drive our 2nd EV without a care in the world. Doesn’t matter how far we go or the state of charge when we get home, we know it’s going to be full or close enough in the morning.