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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There’s also the refueling issue, especially in rural remote areas. Tesla offers superchargers network and it is fine for dense areas (there *might* be consequences later if the electric cars become more popular because there’s an upper throughput limit for every electric network, but now we are not near it), but if you travel far, it is less likely to meet a high-wattage charger.
And you’ll probably have to charge it overnight using the regular home charger. Now imagine the battery has even more capacity and takes even longer (and last 20% of the battery take even more!). So basically, large batteries on consumer cars get into a vicious cycle:
a) no one travels really far using electro cars so people would prefer cheaper and faster charging batteries
b) so this scenario is not prioritized, so why enlarge the capacity anyway if it’s a hard engineering task (see other comments) ?
c) …so no one starts traveling really far using electric cars
upd. okay, I read some comments and I see the charging is less of an issue nowadays.
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