Because people don’t charge like they fill up their tanks.
As electric cars go mainstream, prepare yourselves for the inevitable onslaught of naysaying articles:
“There’ll be nowhere to charge them! “— Nonsense, says Lloyd.
“They run by burning coal.” — Horsepoop, says Sami.
“They take too long to charge!” — Hmm, on this one, you may just have a point.
After all, when drivers are used to filling up their tanks in just a couple of minutes, are they really willing to sit around a highway gas station for half an hour or more before they can get back on the road?