I have never not been in a Tesla where the driver isn't constantly fucking with something. I will grant you - it's only the charging menu when they're in the garage.

Point taken, though - that's a failing of Tesla, not a fundamental problem of the charging experience. I will say that in 1994 we learned in vehicle design that a thousand pounds of batteries was not only forty thousand dollars, it was also the energy density of a gallon of gas. Then cell phones came out and it became ten thousand dollars and three gallons of gas. By the time the Nissan Leaf came out it was three thousand dollars and five gallons of gas. And by the time I was test-driving used Nissan Leafs, the battery packs were half-dead and it was more like two gallons of gas.

Practically speaking, electric cars should be "just cars you put less gas into" but every other electric car ride I've ever taken has been a "will we make it" dance. They definitely have their place, and that place gets bigger every day, but "we have to stop in Hawthorne to charge up for an hour because I passed too many cars on my way from Newport to DTLA" is not something non-electric drivers say.