To further expand on this with some back-of-the-envelope calculation, I've heard EVs are on the order of 30-40 kWh. Say the power storage of the gas tank in an ICE car and the battery storage of an EV are commensurate. Conservatively, say refueling your ICE car takes about 1 min, so 30,000 Wh / ((1/60)h) ~ 1.8 MW.
40kWh is a pretty small EV battery. Many are more like 70-90kWh.
for home charging, figures are exact opposite - when i come home it "costs me" 3 seconds to plug it in, then i do literally literally nothing ( or something else rather), then it "costs me" another 3 seconds to unplug it in morning,
so for 100kwh it is essentially 6 seconds. so electric car wastes 1/10 of my time compared to gasoline one.
im good mathematician, but i like engineering more, because it has to take into account external factors, not "just" numbers.
(intentionally not calculating travel time to and from gas station, queue, noise, smell of a gas station etc )
The way you've described it, charging at your home takes 8+ hours. You can do other tasks in parallel, so the effective cost to you is 6 seconds but that doesn't change how long it takes to charge your vehicle.
There are many use cases where charging at home is not an option, in which case understanding charging time becomes an important factor.
I like mathematics and engineering, which is why I like to understand basic facts to better address an issue rather than contort facts to dismiss an issue.
you phone literally knows when you're going to sleep, when on toilet, what cake did you have on your birthday. so you can ask it to tell you exact trips you took, and you can calculate when and how you can charge and for how long, from that data.