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Needed to make two charge stops in the Chicago area. The first stop wasn't too bad.
Second stop was a disaster. Went to a dealership, but you had to go inside and ask the staff to turn it on, but they were closed on a Sunday. Went to a casino resort that supposedly had a charger, but they had moved it to the employee-only lot after offering it to the public for awhile. Went to a grocery store, and the app wouldn't work. Went to another grocery store, and that one finally did it.
Now, some of that is just bad charging infrastructure that can be fixed, but making two 30 minute stops on this journey isn't ideal even if the chargers all worked properly. At 100 miles of range, you pretty much have to for this distance, and that's only one way.
At around 200 miles of range, I wouldn't have needed any stops on the way there, but would on the way back. At 350 miles, I could have made it there and back no problem. I think that 350 mile number is the sweet spot. If you calculate off 20% for cold weather and 30% to stay within the ideal 10-80% charge range, then you can still get far enough that you ought to be taking a 30 minute break, anyway.
That's why I want a Prius. Plug in at home, burn gas when the battery is flat, still gets 50 MPG highway and city without grid power