That is true but you are are trying to define/limit the choices, by saying it electric versus gasoline.
But the choices include: electric, plug-in hybrid, hybrid, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, gasoline-natural gas hybrid.
If you feel limited with your 5 hour range, switch to the gasoline-nat gas hybrid for a 9 hour range, if you can hold your water.
Most families own multiple cars and if they buy an electric it is only for local duty and have no intent of taking it on the road.
Fine, keep your EV in hour neighborhood. But don't venture out on the Interstate highway system and expect to find taxpayer financed chargers every 25 miles. What galls us is the STATE installing these things where they are totally impractical -- it's a perfect example of STATE thinking. Extremely expensive, will used by very few "elite" people, an totally impractical (just as you point out). That's why the "wisdom of markets" beats central planning every time and every place they've been tried.