Do you happen to have a Tesla Dealership/service centre/supercharger point handy, sir?
Even if these become as frequently-spaced as a Vauxhall Dealership - that's around 5-600 in the UK - that's still not enough of an infrastructure to account for the 'silly sod' factor of modern life. If people don't buy wind up clocks/watches any more because they forget to wind them, and have to take a spare USB lead into work, because they forget to charge their phones, and so on and so on, so too will their electric cars be running out of juice frequently. Hence an infrastructure no less extensive and massive than streetlamps or telephone lines will have to be implemented. And
more extensive than petrol stations, given that, as said, you can't just pop in and give your car 500 miles range in 5 mins, as with an Internal Combustion vehicle. An
hour for 300 miles is the best option presently. Or 22 miles for an hour's charge at normal rate.
I'm not rubbishing the technology, the two options, Hydrogen Fuel cell and all-Electric
are the future, no getting round that - Hybrid will cease soon enough. I'm simply observing that, just like when the telephone was invented, that it's no good there being one (well,
two 
). For it to be practicable there had to been a network of them, spread nationwide. TV in the 30s was expensive and stupid, two different formats, incompatible with one another, and only a hour or so of TV per day. It takes time for a new technology to find its feet, and find its place, and again, the infrastructure to support it. Ironically, the Electric Car was invented almost a century before TV, but that's another matter
I'm one of only two PFL Omegas left in my town, I look forward to the day where I'm running the last Petrol-powered car in the town
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