Just to posit some numbers: If there's 80 miles of range left, and it is 20 miles to the next charger, but mashing the "avoid highways" button makes that next charger 40 miles away instead: I think I wouldn't hesitate to get off of the highway if I felt it would be useful or fun right now.
I'll hypothetically arrive at a charger with ~40 miles of range remaining instead of ~60. Ain't so bad. I do similar risk assessments when driving long distances on gasoline and detouring from my planned route to mix things up.
Now, of course: There's a decent chance that the charger is broken or slow and being SOL, whereas gas is much more available. That's potentially pretty ugly, and it's ugly in ways that running low/out of gas isn't:
It's easy to score some gas in semi-rural anywhere-USA by knocking on a few doors, being polite, and having a bit of cash. (Some people are complete dicks, but I insist that most people are generally good and I am willing to die on this hill.)
Or: I have cheap roadside assistance. They'll bring me a small amount of gas anywhere...eventually...as a part of the service that I pay for by the month.
It's probably also easy enough to ask nicely to use an extension cord to juice up an EV, but that's a ton slower than dumping in a couple of gallons of gasoline is.
And due to limited range, it's more likely to happen with an EV than ICE.
But meh. It's still useful to go on a mini-adventure sometimes. One just needs to take everything into consideration.
And it'll get easier for EV drivers to do this as time moves on.
It just has different costs and risks.
Just to posit some numbers: If there's 80 miles of range left, and it is 20 miles to the next charger, but mashing the "avoid highways" button makes that next charger 40 miles away instead: I think I wouldn't hesitate to get off of the highway if I felt it would be useful or fun right now.
I'll hypothetically arrive at a charger with ~40 miles of range remaining instead of ~60. Ain't so bad. I do similar risk assessments when driving long distances on gasoline and detouring from my planned route to mix things up.
Now, of course: There's a decent chance that the charger is broken or slow and being SOL, whereas gas is much more available. That's potentially pretty ugly, and it's ugly in ways that running low/out of gas isn't:
It's easy to score some gas in semi-rural anywhere-USA by knocking on a few doors, being polite, and having a bit of cash. (Some people are complete dicks, but I insist that most people are generally good and I am willing to die on this hill.)
Or: I have cheap roadside assistance. They'll bring me a small amount of gas anywhere...eventually...as a part of the service that I pay for by the month.
It's probably also easy enough to ask nicely to use an extension cord to juice up an EV, but that's a ton slower than dumping in a couple of gallons of gasoline is.
And due to limited range, it's more likely to happen with an EV than ICE.
But meh. It's still useful to go on a mini-adventure sometimes. One just needs to take everything into consideration.
And it'll get easier for EV drivers to do this as time moves on.