It's not a prerequisite: I see lots of people plugging their cars at public chargers in my residential area; I assume they charge once a week while doing groceries or dining out.

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beAbU a day ago | parent [-]

Public charging can easily be 2x or 3x as expensive.

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masklinn a day ago | parent [-]

And being in your car doing nothing waiting for the charge for 25mn is frustrating. Even more so when it’s the height of summer (and that was in a car where the AC didn’t block charging).

If you can time it with some errands it’s less of a hassle, but that was one of the main non-car annoyances with my EV rental (the other was the flakiness / unreliability of getting a charging session to start).

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beAbU 18 hours ago | parent [-]

I only use public fast charging when on a long road trip. So the 30 min charge always coïncides with me emptying my bladder, so it's never been a hassle.

	▲	masklinn 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As I wrote, this was a rental, there was no charger where I was and no mains adapter provided with the car, so my options were fast charger or pushing the thing. And even during long legs I don’t need to piss for 30mn every two hours.