content: The lengthy charge times are for using any conventional outlet. At charger stations you're at 50% in 20 minutes, 80% in 40 minutes and 100% not much longer after that - though batteries charge more slowly the the nearer to full they are. Electric vehicles will almost certainly replace long haul truckers due to automation. Drive for 4 hours, charge for 1 = 19.2 hours of peak performance driving per day for $0 in cost other than maintenance/charging. Not only can it travel vastly longer distances than a human and do it more safely, but it can also do it for a tiny fraction of the cost of a human. Driverless taxis will likely have a similarly revolutionary effect on personal transport. The thing I think many people don't understand is that driverless taxis have the potential to be a cheaper form of transportation than actually owning a vehicle. The driverless aspect means all that anything above the bare essentials to maintain and operate the car (which a personal driver must also pay) is profit. The big difference is economies of scale. Large fleets of autonomous taxis will be able to obtain great benefits on repair, maintenance, and general operation of their vehicles. And the lack of drivers also means upscaling is trivial. Most are thinking of driverless taxis as basically what we have now, but without a driver. In reality, this technology will likely completely reshape society as we know it.