Really wide spread availability of home, apartment, and work chargers doesn't need a Nobel Prize. Plugging and unplugging takes a few seconds, and having cars with big batteries plugged in a lot is a great way to store "excess" solar and wind energy.

its the required energy density that need the break through and how do you retro fit chargers to a high story apartment block?

The number of times a full recharge time has bit me is 0. But yes, if you exceed the full range of the car in a day and do that every day, an EV is not for you.

Very few people do this, that I know.

Not at all. A Tesla already can recharge significantly in 20-30 minutes, and the Hyundai Ionic takes even higher charge rates than a Tesla, compared to its capacity. If you add to that the ability to slowly charge at a cheap power outlet when you are parking, recharging is not a technical challenge. We just have to equip more and more parking places with power outlets, as demand increases.

10 minutes? 3 minutes.

I think widespread electric vehicle adaption will happen due to price but you have a very valid point on recharge time.

Basically your car is unusable if low and being recharged and there is nothing you can do about it. Unless swapping heavy batteries becomes practical.

If chargers become widely available then this is only a consideration for long road trips. Otherwise your car can be charging at practically any time it's not being driven. Meaning it stays near full battery most of the time you start driving. That's not true for gas; you don't have a gas line connected to your tank in every parking lot.

Teslas have a driving range of ~200 miles or something like that right? After driving 200 miles, most people are happy to stop and stretch their legs for 15-20 minutes. Tesla superchargers take about 30 minutes to charge your battery most of the way. Drive another 200 miles and you're ready for lunch or dinner, which could be a ~1 hour break, if you're not getting drive-thru and a chance for a much longer charge.

The only limiting factors I see are cost, the availability of charging options (and density of locations) and charging for apartment dwellers. Charge times are probably "good enough" already and likely to get better.

Until battery/recharging tech makes that leap, we have plug-in hybrids. My Chrysler Pacifica PHEV minivan gets 30 miles on battery before reverting to a regular hybrid getting 30 MPG.

More like 3-5 mins.