Yes, this indicates that the major problem is infrastructure, that the cars themselves are solid but, like William Gibson says, the future isn't well-distributed.
Gas stations are currently for everyone, and are set up in neighborhoods for quick entry, quick use and quick exit. If everyone has a charger in their garage and topping off their cars every night, the gas station has no purpose most places, but near major roads, I could see large charging stations, dirt of on the truck stop model. If it takes several hours to max your battery, it'll be important to have something for you to do, for your bored children to do, for that time.
I think that, for daily commuter cars, electric vehicles are all but perfect, but we don't think of cars as specific tools like that, but as all-purpose gear, and it irks me to think that I could drive to with and back, no problem, but driving to Indy for a user group meeting or driving to the West to see family becomes unthinkable.
So, question becomes, does this mean the end of the cross-country car? The return of passenger train?
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