It's too simplistic to say that the charging situation needs to be addressed before the cars become viable. It's a real chicken and egg problem. The charging in

It's too simplistic to say that the charging situation needs to be addressed before the cars become viable. It's a real chicken and egg problem. The charging infrastructure and the variety of use cases that EVs cover need to be addressed together. Right now, EVs are fantastic as second cars, or for people who never drive more than an hour or so at a time, or for specific longer trips where you know and are comfortable with the charging options. That's enough to get more EVs on the road, which will provide economic incentive for a higher density of chargers, which will be enough to enable even longer trips without burdensome planning, and so the cycle continues. That's how free markets actually work. Demanding a one-sided "big bang" approach is tantamount to demanding deliberate distortion of the market (whoever goes first needs to be supported by some external means), which itself a good way to ensure that EV adoption remains slow. It doesn't seem like a particularly good-faith argument.