> When you do need to stop on a road trip, you can use fast charging, which is ~250 kW, so somewhere around a quarter of the gas pump’s “wattage.” You’ll probably want to use the bathroom/buy a drink anyway, so charging taking four-ish times as long as pumping isn’t really a big deal.

Yeah, no.

My gasoline car gets ~400 miles to a tank. Well, more than that: 400 miles is effectively the "no matter the circumstances [that cause gas mileage to be sapped], I can always guarantee making it at least that," not like EVs where the range number tends to be more of an aspiration than a reality. Admittedly, I have a small sedan which gets ~40mpg on the highway, but it takes less than 2 minutes to fill it up at the gas pump (about 100s IIRC, I did actually time it). Even derating for less fuel-efficient cars, you're comfortably extending your range by > 100 miles/minute of charging.

The EV charging, by contrast, is going to run something like 200 miles/20 minutes. That's a multiplier closer to 10×, not 4×; it makes the time you need to stop to charge it much more considerable.

But the range issue means I now have to slot an extra major stop. Sure, I can fill up during lunch. But that isn't enough to get me to my destination--I still have 5-6 hours of driving after lunch (sometimes more, since I like to take early lunches to avoid crowds). That extra stop takes longer than all of my bathroom breaks on the trip, combined. That's a not-insignificant amount of extra time on my trip.

The other consideration is that, if you're trying to tell people to overlap charging with lunch, well have you seen how crowded the travel plazas get on a busy travel day? They can get so packed that every parking space is taken up. The fill-up-while-you-eat rule suggests that pretty much every single one of those parking spaces needs a charger, most of which don't have the room for a charger as it stands.