I've found it's helpful to look at real-world scenarios, so here' mine:
I commute each day Santa Cruz to Campbell, which is 54 miles round trip. It's 99% a highway drive, where I average about 55 mph on the twisty parts and 70 mph on the flat straight potions. For the sake of argument I get 4 miles per kWh (more when it's warm, less when it's cold). The e-Golf has 20 kWh of usable battery so that correlates to a 80 mile range.
Generally speaking I'm at 30-45% battery full when I get home. I recover about 5% battery for each hour plugged in at 120v in my driveway, so that's 11 to 14 hours. If I plug in by 8pm I'm always close to full by 10am. I have solar panels and am still on PG-E's E-6 plan; really I'm probably better off switching to the EV plan where the off-peak rates are 11 pm - 7 am. But then I'd need a home L2 charger in order to get a full charge during off-peak.