Actually, the studies I’ve read indicate that even for fossil fuel power plants, that burn the fuel at the source and transmit to the car, is still more efficient by far than transporting the fuel to each car and then burning it at the source. Also consider that many car owners do not maintain their engines as power plants do, and therefore will lose efficiency over time.
With regard to charging time. With a 300 mile range, charging overnight while you sleep, when there is massive excess grid capacity, and the rates are cheap makes sense. However, if you really need to drive 600 miles one day, Tesla can recharge to 80% in 30 minutes.
“Tesla can recharge to 80% in 30 minutes.”
And in the scheme of things, how you go about your daily business, this would be acceptable? I don’t intend to degrade my life by this sort of retrograde “improvement.” Electric cars may, in the short term, fill a niche market for some people, but they are just that with present day technology. Also, if, as you suggest, there is a large overcapacity of electric energy at night, this is just another capitulation to our country’s inability to provide for its citizen. It’s like the nonsense that you need to wash your clothes in the middle of the night to “preserve our environment.” Which is nonsense.