Once you've bought an electric car you adapt journeys to fit in with your cars range and the charging network. This is why Tesla works and I wouldn't consider any other electric car unless my average daily drive was less than about 80 miles. Right now I can get in my car and drive to the Arctic Circle, the south of Spain, the south of Italy or the far east of Hungary just as easily as a petrol or diesel car. My typical drive time to Geneva is about an hour longer than when I drove in the Range Rover. I like to stop every couple of hours on long trips for a cup of tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner etc and that's the perfect time to charge up. The Tesla nav system actually plans your route with stops along the way and recommends how long to charge at each stop to get to the next most convenient charge point.
Your comments about the south of spain etc dont tie in with Ruud's range figures not the real life nes from Tesla.
A 200 miles range would cover all the lng jouneys that we do these days but there still is the inconvebience. A couple of cars ago we had a Volvo S60 factory fitted with their LPG system. That had a real world range of 200 miles and like Tesla you had to go to a special place to refill. There were lots of them but it was still infuriating to have to divert and still annoying to have to refill so often. Compare that with my current Merc diesel which happile has a real world range of 600 miles.
Clearly I am going to end up changing to leccy but I am i no hurry to do so whilst th refuelling issue is so messy. What is needed is a 600 mile range so you can then schedule refuelling for when its convenient
