Drive for two hours, rest for 30 minutes while the car charges enough to drive two more hours. While not exactly the same usage pattern as a fossil fuel car, it should be enough. We need more quick charge points.

but that is not how people travel, ever.

besides time to charge the real big drawback of battery EVs is the weight of the packs

I would say this actually fits the majority of traffic patterns: https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/su...

EG: The vast majority of travel is for errands and work commuting. Probably a lot of that social travel in the linked survey is short distance as well.

Average miles a day is 30, which can easily be covered by an overnight charge.

Agree that the time to charge EVs is definitely a drawback for long distance travel (whether for social reasons or for transport etc.).

But this is how they used to travel when cars were first introduced. The Ford Model T could only get 170-200 miles [1] on a full tank of gas and gas stations were certainly as rare in the early 1900's as electric charge stations are today. Yet Ford still sold a ton of Model T's, and look at where we are today.

[1] Source: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/146015.html?1276...

>It is the time needed to store it.

For now. Battery tech is increasing at a fast pace.