it's like it drives with confidence

I think it's because it reacts to the controls soo much faster.

In an ICE vehicle, especially with sticks shift, you're pushing and pulling all these gears and levers and pedals to control a transmission connected to an engine, or a brake, which will then attempt to produce the revolutions that you requested.

In an EV, it just does it. It's like the pedal is a direct control of the engine, which is connected directly to the wheels, which always has enough torque to carry out your request, even braking. Technically it still has a transmission etc., but it doesn't cause a delay like conventional transmissions.

In everyday driving, this shows most clearly when you're starting from a complete stop. You can find soo many more openings in traffic, when you trust you car to accelerate efficiently to merge into the traffic fluidly without getting in the way or getting into any risk when doing it.

I've been driving an ICE car lately for unrelated reasons, and it's definitely not a backstep you'll want to take. It feels like controlling a steam driven submarine using only pressure valves to steer through a mine field.

It's the acceleration for me. It's like having a sports car the size of a truck.

Yanks don't know what high fuel prices are

They just have shitty, inefficient vehicles, because they make cars and motorbikes that are a metaphor for their country

You say that but EV sales in the US are down 20% compared to last year.

and it helps that car manufacturers finally realized EVs don’t have to look like dumpy sedans any more

Yea now we get to choose between hatchback on stilts that doesn't have all-wheel drive, hatchback on stilts that gets AWD as an expensive option but still won't be any good off road, as well as wagons on stilts. Ooh and also sedans on stilts.

Fuck this crossover craze, give me back sedans and wagons. An SUV should have actual ground clearance and be able to reliably drive more than one wheel in slippery conditions, not when a computer demands it. If it doesn't that, it's just a hatchback or wagon on stilts.

But they ignore that you don’t need to even go to a public charger like that most of the time if you charge at home.

Absolutely, in the 10 months we've had the car we've literally only charged away from home less than 10 times. Because almost all of our trips can be done on 1 charge.
And charging at home is both super convenient and super cheap.

Even if you can't charge at home, you could charge it when you are buying all these sofas and fridges people keep telling me I need to buy a car or SUV to transport.

This is dangerously negligent behavior. Don’t do that. Also it’s a crime.

That… applies for fuel too? If it’s not super busy, I’ll go inside and grab a snack while getting fuel.

That's illegal here, the hose is not allowed to be able to lock.

That’s got to cause more problems than it solves.

Just because you don't see how it can work, doesn't mean it doesn't. ( argument from ignorance ) First of all the grid of Estonia isn't isolated, it is connected to a much larger European grid of about 700 million people.
I know this is pretty recent, before it was connected to Russia. But these connections are strategic and are constantly expanded throughout Europe.

These 1.5 MW chargers are generally connected in groups, if the grid isn't powerful enough to handle them, they will not be established.
But my guess is they use batteries to store power for fast discharge, that are charged a steady but lower rate.
Remember when a car charges at that rate it only draws power for 5 minutes. So one charger can handle maybe 12 cars per hour.

Here in Denmark we have Charging stations where multiple brands are represented, with each their "island" of chargers. And I've seen some that have more than 20 stations with 400 kW charging available. The reason they aren't bigger, is that there isn't a market for it yet. But if they are run all of them simultaneously that would be 8 MW.
But if 2 on the same station are used at the same time they only provide half the power. So the max is really only 4 MW.
This is in Denmark where we are about 6 million people, and our peak AFAIK is only 5,3 GW, But the country is split into 2 energy zones, East and West, so for one zone the number is probably closer to 2,7 GW. Mostly half the country is on 1 island, and the rest is mostly a peninsula and an island.
So closer to 3 million, and for some reason with way lower peak power per capita than Estonia. But the electric grid is connected to Norway, Sweden, Germany, and even UK and Poland.

IDK how they do it, but it works, and I've never experienced a problem.

Give it a few years and getting your own personal wind turbine for fast charging your car at home would almost not be insane.

If you're sharing the driving, then maybe. If you're on your own, then a ten minute break every couple of hours is sensible anyway, and so recharging isn't inconvenient. Good maps and accurate range monitoring is more important than shaving off a couple of minutes. And having all the chargers be working, ofc - standard operating practice is to have a couple of them just be frozen up, to waste your time.

Main problem that we have (UK) is that most of the places that have fast chargers are in shopping estates on the outskirts of towns, and they largely serve pretty shitty coffee, and may or may not have toilets.