I see two arguments here, both correct. Muddie wants to drive from Noosa to Sydney with minimal stopping time and it is true that there is no production electric car today that will do this.
Acorn argues that the average commute is under 40km per day thus electric cars are perfect - also correct. If your 40 km commute consumed say 9KWh of energy it would take less than 4 hours to top that up at home using a small charger plugged into a 1OA wall socket.
As an aside, if you accept that an electric car consumes 18KWh/100 km, then at 30 cents/KWH, it costs you $5.40 to travel that 100km
Meanwhile, a petrol car using 8L/100km costs around $11.20 to travel 100km. About double the electric. And with almost zero servicing costs.
Admittedly, cost and life of battery packs is a whole other story and you enter the Disallowed world of car salesmen when you try and quantify these.
