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You say "you need a gas car for long trips", and "Chargers didn't factor into it".
Isn't that directly contradicting? Why else do you feel like you need a gas car for long trips if it isn't related to either not enough chargers or chargers still not being fast enough for you? Chargers absolutely factor into that part of why you didn't buy electric yet.
But also, the notion that they can't do long trips is already pretty outdated. There are very few places left where you would even need to take a detour to take a long trip in an electric car. The only downside is that charging at max speed takes about 3x as long as filling with gas still, and not every charging station is max speed. As that continues to improve, it'll be less and less of a difference.
So, funding the R and D department of the charging network, as well as the construction of the charging network, are absolutely fundamental to more people adopting electric as their single vehicle choice. And not as their second vehicle only for one small purpose.
Right. If you put in enough chargers, ranges of 300 to 400mi are fine. You need to stop every 2 to 4 hours, anyway, so it's not a big deal in practice.
It's not a big deal if you're only driving a few hours. Longer trips, especially business trips, yes that's a big deal.
Not to mention, the real world tests don't support the stated driving ranges for most models. Ideal conditions hardly ever exist in the real world.
I get more than the stated range in the summer and less in the winter.