The financial math is very contextual and messy. The logistics is also messy. For a secondary car, the logistics is easy, math is often harder. For a primary vehicle, it's the reverse.
Purchase price parity is coming soon, but it's certainly not here yet. A simple Google search will tell you the that gap between average ICE and average EV sale price is about 10%, but EVs don't have a real "discount" segment so it's not that easy of a comparison. This is changing, though slower here than elsewhere. Gas prices and electricity prices will fluctuate making the calculation tricky
Logistics will continue to improve though. Here in BC there's plenty of chargers and the network overall is great. I can drive from Salmon Arm to Chetwynd and have a bevy of options to choose for charging. If I'm going from Salmon Arm to Grande Cache to see my Dad, it is pretty challenging and requires some planning and waits in certain places on the Alberta side. In the winter it would require a ridiculous wait in Hinton as there's no real fast charger
But....
It's chicken and egg. The Chargers will be installed eventually, but uptake would be faster if there were more EVs to use them
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