I am in the market to buy a new car right now.
I am a technology person and would like to buy a full electric vehicle, but as much as I like them, the technology is just not there yet. They are a burden to own compared to a gas car.
They require you to think and plan and work around them, whereas a gas car does not. I am actually not convinced that battery EV's are ever going to succeed until we have a revolutionary battery technology come along. What we have now isn't it. Even with supercharging, I don't want to sit for a half hour to charge when I can fill up with gas in 2-3 minutes.
There is always a knee of the curve, a killer app, a price point, or a threshold that needs to be met before a technology really catches on. VCR's could do time-shifting for years, but only when digital storage made it really easy did it take off. And only when EV's are as convenient as ICE cars will they take off.
Until then, they will be bought by tech savvy early adopters willing to live with the (severe) shortcomings and by people who like getting $10k of their fellow taxpayers money for their luxury car.
like most people you are not being imaginative and expect a like for like replacement. So where do you work? does your employer have roof space to put solar panels on so that you can charge your car while at work? there are cars capable of 200-250 miles. If my employer made at work car charging a thing I'd buy a second hand electric tomottow aqnd travel for 1/10 the cost I do now plus have juice to plug the car into the house and run the house for free..........
Engineers often have a bad habit of not understanding human nature and sales and think that people just need to adapt themselves to the products they create rather than making products that work best for the consumer. That's why they do things like use + and - buttons for the volume of a radio rather than a knob - the latter allowing for faster adjustment, more resolution, etc.
That's what you are doing here. The problem is not that I lack imagination. The problem is the product. I like the other aspects of an EV, but I don't want to deal with the long charging times. Sure, in many cases it would not be an issue... but in some cases, it WOULD be an issue. And it is an issue I do not care to deal with. I also do not care to deal with planning my trips and my routes to make sure chargers are available to me (and hope space is available when I get there - especially for example if I reserve a hotel room based on that hotel having chargers for guests).
I thought about getting a Tesla for my new car, but the technology just isn't there yet. It is a fine car for a multi-car family when you have the option of taking the gasoline powered car when you need to drive a longer distance or go on a road trip, or for when the power went out or you forgot to plug it in or whatever. But for a replacement for a combustion engine car? The technology just isn't there yet.
Which is why they aren't selling. People just don't want to buy them. They buy them only with huge price discounts. That isn't really about furthering the technology - that's just keeping the manufacturers alive (and still losing grotesque quantites of money even with the subsidies, I might add).