[niftich]

While all of this is true, charging time is an issue because it limits range. A gasoline powered car is just a 5-minute detour away from doubling its range, which compares terribly with the sort of vehicle you're going to want to walk away from to do something else while the charging does its thing.

Apparently people leaving Teslas longer than necessary in the supercharger spots is already an issue [1] that they are trying to rectify by charging for overstays.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204120#13204455

[ebbv]

It's true, if you are the type of person who often drives >200 miles a day EVs today are not as convenient as gas cars for those trips.

But that is a very small percentage of people. If only those people bought gasoline cars in 2017 they would sell fewer than the number of EV cars sold in 2016.