Their point was that a number of people who have range anxiety are those who haven't actually looked at what the impact of changing to an EV would actually be. Which, for a lot of people, wouldn't be nearly as much as they would think.

A lot of people with range anxiety probably use an EV with little to no impact in their driving habits other than plugging in when they get home. But they're so concerned with "what if's" that rarely ever come up in their lives. "But what if I suddenly need to drive across the country taking only back country roads and avoiding all highways across the furthest north roads in the coldest of winter?? Can't do that in an EV!"

The most common reactions I get to people asking about my EV are along the lines of "But how do you charge it? Don't you have to wait at public chargers all the time? It must be so challenging driving an EV with so many broken chargers all the time! You must have to wait so long all the time for all that charging, its so slow!" Which is quite strange, because the vast majority of charging sessions most EVs would probably experience are plugging in at their home entirely negating these concerns.

For a lot of those people asking me those questions (often friends and family), I know they'd be able to replace a car with an EV and have only positive impacts other than the costs of buying a new car (something they do on some schedule regularly). But the talking heads on the TV tell them EVs == slow, unreliable, expensive charging so clearly all EV owners must be dealing with largely unavailable, unreliable, expensive, slow charging all the time. When in reality I spend more time pumping gas in my ICE than I do waiting on my EV to charge, I've encountered more broken gas pumps than charging dispensers in the last year, and it costs me almost 10x less in energy cost than my ICE per mile.