I think you might be right when you're talking about a household's first car. We want to be able to take the car on long weekend drives or holidays. But many

I think you might be right when you're talking about a household's first car. We want to be able to take the car on long weekend drives or holidays. But many households have two or more cars, and considering that the typical daily usecase is more like a 40km round trip, current electric cars are more than capable of meeting this need. Households simply use the fuel-based car for longer trips, and the electric car is used for in-city usage. In 20 years time we could hope that the battery problem will be sufficiently solved that we can start getting 500km trips out of a charge, and then even the first car of a household could be electric.