I bought a used 2022 Bolt EUV in late February for $19k and my only gripe with it is the charging speed. It is incredibly rare for me to do longer drives, so it's not a regret per sé, but it's annoying that I didn't do research on that particular detail. While the Ioniq 6 has 800V architecture which allows charging at 240-350kW, I'm stuck at fucking 50. For those who don't know those units and just want real world figures, the difference is that charging from 20% to 80% takes like 15 minutes for theirs and like an hour for mine.

Most of my longer drives still aren't that long though, so that's just the situation where I actually charge up to 100% at home and just do a big charge at a meal and bathroom break like 3-4 hours in.

Just thought I'd make people aware of the caveat of the cheap Bolts, and how that still doesn't actually matter most of the time. I would've paid more for quicker charging on the road even though it would affect only a couple of drives per year.

You don't have DC fast charging infrastructure? For really long trips, there are trains or planes, but those middle distance trips are fine to just stop and charge every couple hours. Kia/Hyundais now are doing higher voltage on big batteries, so it's like 20 minutes for 0-100% charge on a 350 mile battery. If they threw a 200 mile battery into that, it's a 10 minute charge, but in reality you are not waiting around for that 20 minutes after driving for 5 hours; you're taking a shit and eating a meal.

Or, ya know, not everyone lives on the east coast in the most densely populated area of the country? How about the 50% of the country where its an hour drive between cities? I live in Oregon and am constantly driving more than 100 miles out of town to have fun with friends. Day trips are a common thing in the US, and I'm not buying a separate car just to drive to Medford from Weed.

Even when I lived in Portland or Seattle, I still drove like 2 hours out a few times a month to hang with friends or visit family. The US is huge dude, the whole country of Ireland is like the size of Oregon. When visiting family in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, or just most of the country, the distances get way WAY bigger for just daily living.

[EDIT: I stand corrected, the state of Oregon is twice the size of Ireland]

With modern battery tech, that "waiting around for it to charge" would take 5-10 minutes. Let's assume that that 100 mile range car has a 30kWh battery (my 250 mile range car has 63ish I think). If it runs 800V architecture like Hyundai/Kia, it can charge at 350kW, but let's round down to 300 for easy math. Even if you got down to 0% as you got to the charger (which you wouldn't assume for a gas car getting to a gas pump, so that's a stretch), it'll be so fast to charge that it doesn't even make sense to walk away to buy a coffee.
30kWh/300kW=(1/10)h=6 minutes.
I rounded in unfavorable directions, which probably accounts for losses, more or less.
"Sounds expensive," you might be thinking. Nope. I've never seen it above $0.65/kWh, but again let's round for easier math and assuming bad luck. At $0.75/kWh, that 6 minute 0-100% 30kWh charge costs $22.50. Slightly more expensive than gas, but this is presumably for uncommon trips, so charging at home where your rate is probably closer to $0.15/kWh the vast majority of the time will more than offset those day trips since that refuel costs $4.50. Even if every other charge were at that high rate, that's still an average of $13.50 for a full tank. Assuming a gas car with 25mpg, that's like paying $3.38/gallon on average. Not great, but better than reality right now.
If it's more like every tenth charge is in the city at that high rate, then your average charge is $6.30, which is like paying an average of $1.58/gallon.

So it doesn't take longer to refuel this EV than a standard gas car, and it's cheaper than a standard gas car if you're refueling at home at least half the time. The only real variable here is whether there is a charging station at the optimal location for your journey, and those are popping up everywhere.

In reality, I agree with you, but for a different reason. For battery longevity, it's best to keep the state of charge at 20-80% most of the time. So I'd rather have a 200+ mile range to do my 100 mile trips. And that's what I did. I bought a used Bolt EUV with a range of about 240 miles (down from 250 when new) and I charge to about 75% for my daily 90ish mile commute, and I get home and plug in at like 30%.

I'm actually out of town with my EV right now. I charged to 100% at home the night before, drove a little over 2 hours to this hotel, a bit over an hour round trip for dinner last night, probably about 30 minutes round trip today, and I'll probably stop for a short charge on the way home tomorrow just for peace of mind. It's nowhere near as big a headache as most people make it out to be. For most people, if you need to buy a car and you have the ability to charge at home while you're sleeping, it doesn't make sense to not buy an EV. Used ones are still cheaper than they should be.

If I was saving $200/month on gas I could afford other modes of transport for the once or twice a month I need to go farther than 100 miles. Or I'd be willing to stop and charge my car for 30 minutes mid-trip if it was saving me hundreds of dollars in gas each month.

If you want to go further just charge it and then keep going. Not really a big deal if you're only doing that like once a year.