Why is it so difficult to design electric car/truck batteries that have the same range (about 300 miles) as gas powered vehicles?

Question

It’s really the only reason I haven’t bought one, as I regularly travel across Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and especially in the wintertime I understand the range is even less because of the cold.

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Answer 1

It’s like rockets. If you want to add more lift capability, you need to add more fuel. Then you need to add more fuel just to lift that extra fuel, on and on.

To add range, you have to add more heavy batteries. And the to haul around those batteries, you need some extra batteries. And pretty soon, you’re out of space for batteries in the vehicle, so now you have to add more vehicle, which then requires more batteries to haul around that extra vehicle weight…on and on.