...I'm just wondering about the people who are one the fence of buying a Tesla / EV because of how long it takes to charge...
I think a common misconception is the
context of charging and how it differs from ICE servicing.
It is true EV's will spend more time charging - by a lot - than comparable ICE cars will spend at the gas pump.
The lost context is charging time can be stacked far easier with other tasks, in general, than filling up a tank of gas.
For example, assuming you plug in at night and your car takes ~7h to charge, if you also sleep during that time the realized 'cost' associated with that time is effectively null when compared to an ICE car. That is to say, both cars would presumably be sitting in your garage whilst you slept or did whatever. Thus 7hrs to charge is far longer than 7m to fuel up, but 7hr overnight charge time easily is absorbed into whatever else you'd otherwise be doing [read: sleeping] so the precipitable impact is negligible.
Another example is the road trip: going from sub 5% to 100% will take ~1h to ~1h45m depending on supercharger capabilities and battery resilience (again in broad terms). Far longer than fuel up at a gas station but if one was planning on stopping anyways for lunch/work call/gym/whatever the time cost blends into the background as it's not like one is standing around and staring at the ground while waiting for the charge to finish.
The downside here is this assumes 1) there actually is something else one needed to do and 2) the amenities (restaurants, coffee shops, gyms, etc.) are within an easy walk of where the charger is at. For cities I generally find this to be the case, but the rural locations can be hit-or-miss.
Where it does get old, at least for me, is when I have to stop more than three (3) times in a day to charge. No issues doing a charge in the AM, charging at lunch, charging in the PM, and then throwing the car onto a L2 charger for the evening at the hotel (which I don't count towards the 3 stops), but having to deal with charging beyond that gets old quickly.
Will also note the a recently opened V3 supercharger near me is built atop a Sprouts. V3 takes ~8m to go from 20% --> 50% -
barely enough time to run in and run out of the grocery store...see below for the stats:
Also will note it takes about an hour to go from <5% --> 100% on a V3.