Many people (me included) rarely journey more than 200 miles in a day. It is so cheap to charge at home (currently costs me about £3 for a "tankful", 250 miles on a good day) that I'd never choose to charge away from home if I could - but if I did, the most expensive superfast chargers that I know of are a bit over 50p (I think) so that'd be something a bit over £30 which I gather, is at least comparable with petrol at about £8.60 a gallon. But then you offset it against the many more miles done on the £3 tankfuls and it really doesn't matter if you have to pay top dollar once in a while.
Most of the time the car is filled up while I sleep, with no queuing. It can be filled to 100% more safely on a home charger. I tend to top it up whenever it reaches about 55% as I can just about fill it from there in my 4 hour cheap leccy window.
My understanding is that the network of fast chargers is building fairly quickly - and Tesla have recently opened their sites to non-Tesla cars which is handy (though they are one of the most expensive).
I don't see why a 200 mile range is a constraint. Your journey probably takes a little more planning and time, that's all.
When I go to Edinburgh in Aug I'll need to stop twice on the way - but as we're doing an overnight one of those will a painless charge while I sleep/eat/whatever. I'm thinking the other will be close to Edinburgh so I arrive in town fairly full. Charge up before leaving then maybe one long stop (probably lunchtime) and a splash and dash on the way back. Hardly impactful really.
I'm doing some theoretical workings out using an app to see how much worse 75mph would be than 65mph - so far the door to door times are pretty similar, so I'm planning to not do it the slow way, which quite a few would - I prefer to feel like I'm "making progress" when on a motorway.
Driving an EV is such a quiet, smooth and pleasant experience that it'd be hard for me to go back to an ICE car now :-)
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