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Tesla has 110 superchargers in the US. And adds 2-5 per month.

Tesla has 106 240v chargers in various shopping centers and hotels and other popular destinations all over the country.

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2014/08/28/tesla-rolls-out-destination-charging-program-at-hotels-restaurants-and-resorts/

And there are over 50k public electric vehicle chargers in America.

http://www.plugshare.com/#

That is less than than the 116k gasoline stations but there are less electric cars too.

The article says that the Tesla takes 4 to 6 hours to recharge. I can fill my old Mercedes with diesel in under 10 minutes. Which is more convenient for the average person?

So, by your map, if I only drive 250-300 miles, I can charge up? (That dog won't hunt, and in winter, that can kill you.)

No thanks.

I'm not going to debate why you're on FR propagandizing Tesla, electric cars, green enerty et al (the only thing you're not touting is the value to the global warming fight). Maybe you're a Tesla rep. Maybe you work in a College and it's rubbing off on you (Telsa is HUGELY subsidized by taxpayers...not Conservative at all). I frankly don't give a rat. But I'm not going to permit your preaching to go one-sided and unchallenged about another part of the story because, to coin a cliche', the 'science is not settled':

Don’t look so smug: Your Tesla might be worse for the environment than a gas car

Smugly citing the lack of coal power plants in SoCal paints you a certain color from more than one point of view.

Furthermore, I never saw it posted here, but here's the rest of the Tesla road-test story after Musk & Tesla's round of propaganda poo-pooing the lousy results that made national media. While the Tesla owners manual warns users about battery damage resulting from draining the battery to 25-0%, it omits mention at all of the damage done to the battery from repeated use of 'quick-charging stations' (that tidbit is rechargeable-battery 101; even Musk can't change physics & chemistry). This story scratches the surface, but mostly exposes the diversion used by Tesla to avoid talking about what will be reported more & more as Tesla users make frequent use of quick-charging stations.

If the government would just release Lithium 6 as a free-market element, this discussion would be completely moot, as hydrogen would replace EVs overnight. I don't dispute that the Tesla is a nice engineering feat all-around; what I dispute is a champion of liberal business model (subsidies) and climate change/global warming being touted in typical liberal/propagandistic fashion (whitewashing for whatever personal bias you have) in a Conservative forum such as FR without being open/honest about the dark side(s) of it.

I barely had the time to write this; I could go on, but neither do I have the time nor the emotional bias to motivate me. Notably, referring to emotional bias: The reality posed by Tesla's stock price and the very real threat to its entire business model by Chinese manufacturers paints a dark picture for Tesla's, and EVs in general made elsewhere, future.

I concur with you on Russia/China, but ignoring certain realities to promote a product...well...

...I don't wear a skirt, but you Tesla proponents (Volt, too) sure blow like we all do...