ABC News has a good, relatively balanced article about the experiences EV owners have with trying to recharge their vehicle batteries. If you want a thumbnail summary of what they found, it is this. An EV is great if you have a home charger, use the EV for 100 miles or less per day, and get home every night. EVs are difficult, at best, for longer trips.
As a retiree, I can imagine owning an electric for trips to the store, the post office, and local restaurants. It would also be a fine way to commute to work, if I still did that. For longer trips, EVs can be made to work but are significantly less convenient, slower, and less reliable than internal combustion vehicles. Perhaps unfairly, I think of EVs as oversized golf carts - as very local transport.
Living as the DrsC do in non-urban places where longish drives are a weekly part of life, having a gas/diesel vehicle will always be a necessity. Also having an EV for local trips would be an okay addition, in lieu of the gas powered second cars we have now.
The "home charger" need means EVs won't work for most apartment dwellers until apartments install chargers that are somehow billed to the apartment renter.
