I have had my EV for 3 months now.
I have been what is sometimes called a "petrol head" here since my teens and worked most of my career in Formula 1 motor racing. I originally chose a plug in hybrid as a cheap to run car but liked the throttle response it has in EV mode so much I started to take an interest in fully electric.
The battery was and is the biggest concern but there is so much total bollox about EVs on the internet it is shocking, but strong views spread by people failing to understand is grist for the internet mill, sadly.
Anyway the people winging most about EVs have either zero or very small experience of EVs and didn't make any effort (or were to uneducated to understand) the way batteries function IME/IMO.
Before I bought mine I had checked out the charge curve, which showed that letting the battery run low then charging to 80% (where it is still capable of absorbing 150kW) or so made the most sense.
Anybody sitting at a charger waiting to get to 100% is ignorant and foolish. I charge to 100% at home on the trickle charger whilst asleep if I am going a long way then plan my route around fast chargers, planning to stop every 2 hours or so for a cup of tea.
IME arriving at the charger, plugging in, going to the cafe, ordering and consuming the tea then walking back to the car has so far always resulted in enough charge to get to my next planned stop, I only look at the charge level on the app when I finish my tea to make sure I have enough to get to the next charger. So far I always have had and have never had to wait at all.
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Having written that I don't travel often on motorways at all so haven't experienced the problem of fully occupied chargers on busy pre-holiday travel days, which would be annoying, but I have queued for petrol too on those days in the past.
I chose my car for its performance, a lot of that is thanks to it being an EV.
I looked into charging and charge locations in a way I never did with petrol pumps but that was me self educating. Overall I have spent spectacularly less time recharging my car away from home than I would have spent standing at a smelly petrol pump refuelling my sporty V8 cars in the past so it is a massive win for me.
It also has silence and the broad power curve that makes it so much superior than a turbo petrol engine to drive.
It is the best car I have ever driven.
Having written all that though I do still have an open 2-seater with a screaming N/A IC engine and no driver aids for short journey fun. The petrol head in me still loves the sound but only for a short thrash, on long journeys it is tiring. The EV has a faux sporty sound option but on the test drive I only put up with it for less than a minute then switched it off.