It’s not a particularly common thing to do though. When we drove back from Reading the other other day, we had to go from 7% to 30% to get home. I had to stop it charging before I’d ordered a KFC in the services to avoid paying more than I needed.
I stopped at the M1 Rugby one a while back. Car was on about 15%, went in to get coffee, which was slow service, by the time I got back with my coffee the car was over 80%. Must have been at the max (about 180kW) for most of the time.
I had to drive off rather sit and enjoy the coffee with a YouTube vid
I was using a Prius plug-in which has about 30-36 miles of EV range winter-summer, plus about 500 miles on a full tank. It gives around 60 to 65 mpg as a hybrid only but has averaged 150 mpg over its 5 years due to mainly being an EV for all or the bulk of local journeys.
It doesn’t have sportscar grip or performance but rides well and has a good chassis balance with wishbone suspension all round iirc.
Buying an EV was not for expense reasons for me.
It is a toy that gets FAR less use than my stereo. Daft really.
I’ve turned my car to chill mode.
Performance scares me. It’s fun to put on now and again but for normal driving it’s too much.
Nice to have in the back pocket, though!