I did watch a video on Electric car use, and a neighbour of mine who owns a Tesla model S did back the video up.
The central point of the video was that electric cars are designed to be charged, probably overnight, while you (the owner) are home from work, doing the sort of stuff you normally do in the evening. The car will be fully charged in the morning. Yes, the range is probably 2-300 miles, but how many people regularly drive more than that in a day? My neighbour drives all over the country with his job, but he finds the Tesla considerably cheaper to run than a reasonably specced petrol car.
The technology isn't there yet to enable a full charge in a few minutes (whereas with petrol or diesel, you can get in the filling station, fill up, pay and be out the station in less than 5 minutes. It may be one day, but that's not where Tesla appear to think it will go. Where they are placing supercharger stations, it's usually on major roads, and usually near somewhere a person can go for the several hours it will take to recharge the car (such as a hotel or other leisure facility).
That's not to say I think the electricity grid will cope. I'm not sure it will. We have too many power stations that are near end of life, and the electricity companies do not seem interested in replacing them. It barely copes now in the winter, without the load imposed on it by 10s of thousands of electric cars charging overnight.
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Apparently so..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclea...y_and_security