Everything? Unlikely, at least in the short term. It's going to be more about charge time. Even if they get them to go 500 miles on a charge the problem is that instead of a 10 minute fill up its going to be a few hours of charging.
It's not just the range the cost of buying a EV is out of the reach of most people. A $40.000 plus car is to much now if they can get the price of and EV to around $20k that would make a significant impact in ICE sales.
EV's are into the high 20's already. A Leaf is like 29K before any deals. That's not much more an a Civic. The problem is that a lot of finance people will tell you that into days economy the average person isn't making enough to really responsibly be even be financing Civic money and yet they are taking 5yr loans out for much more than that.
While I am sure battery technology will improve, driving a long trip is not possible without a time sapping battery charge. Gassing up the car is 5 minutes. It still takes an hour or more to charge a Tesla at one of their supercharging stations. There are also plenty of gas stations around. Not as many charging stations. Even if charging time is cut in half with better technology, it is still an inconvenience.
Agreed. With current tech, you aren't going to "fill up" an electric car in the same amount of time as a car with an ICE. You have to plan ahead. Tesla does a pretty good job of navigating you around so you can hit one of their charging stations without going too far out of the way.
