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How about a battery-swap service so that one would not need to wait for recharging?
Who's going to force all the car manufacturers to have swappable batteries (makes crash safety a real headache!), much less standardize on one or a few sizes, connectors, etc?
And then who's going to set up the network of battery-swapping stations when the vehicle fleet to pay for them doesn't exist? (It's the same problem as the "Hydrogen Highway".)
There's a reason why the near future belongs to the PHEV; it doesn't demand anything new except the vehicle itself.