I am not a super-serious car nut, but definitely a car guy. Have rebuilt a few from the ground up, do most of my own work, and am interested in all forms of motorsports. I have never had the opportunity to drive an EV and for lack of a better way to put it, was never overly interested because of how hard they are pushing to replace everything with electric. Our electric rates are incredible here, so I questioned the economic feasability. Recently, however, one of our vehicles was off the road for a few days and we needed a rental. Initially tried for. cheap midsize car from Enterprise, only to find out that our 8AM pickup had to be pushed back to several hours after we needed to leave town. So I went to another company, and they had a Tesla 3, for about the same price as the other car. Initial impressions were that it was.. Different. I mean, it's a car, it drives like a car. but it certainly didn't perform like a $40 per day rental car. The acceleration was a welcome surprise, the instant torque, the acceleration from highway speeds, just all around it was a nice experience from a performance point of view. My next concern was charging. I don't do a LOT of long distance driving, but this weekend we were. I had heard stories about road trips on hold due to charge times. I can't speak about all cars, but in our experience this wasn't an issue. I know frequent supercharger use is probably not best for battery longevity, but in the end, a 15 minute charging stop was perfect to stretch, let the kids run around, and get a decent 80% charge that got us another nearly 200 mile drive - Just long enough that we were all ready to stretch our legs again. Now, on to the cost. We were paying around $12 per charge, which to be entirely honest was well below what a tank of gas for the same drive would have cost us. Even less when I was able to charge at home (Which would have been $3-4 per charge Overall, coming from never driving anything electric before it was a really nice experience. I love my gas engines, I can work on them all day - and in the end, the charge is fuel consumed somewhere. But totally enjoyable experience!