It would take you 3-4 hours to drive on a short 200 mile trip.
There’s much more to the electric car story than what you might be hearing. The anti-fossil-fuel business tends to forget and/or ignore the fact that electric cars are, obviously, just that … powered by electricity, a secondary energy source that is mostly generated by the combustion of coal and natural gas both here in the U.S. and around the world.
Electric cars often need an entire night to recharge at home, and they can increase a house’s power consumption by 50% or more, Adding an electric car on the grid is equivalent in some cases to adding three houses.
Not quite true. The Level 3 charges can give about 150 to 200 miles within 40 to 50 minutes. Longer than filling up at a gas station? Definitely. A few hours? Nope. IMHO the 40 to 50 minutes wait is a deal breaker only if you plan to use the EV for many trips. If it's one or two long trips per year, but lots of use for commutes, then being able to fill up at home regularly is more convenient than a 10 minute gas stop once per week or so.
But that doesn't get into upgrading the power grids to bring power to all of these Level 3 chargers. Then there's the issue of charging at home if half the neighborhood has an EV and the grids needing to be upgraded to bring everybody lots of power in the evening when folks get home from work. IMHO that's the major electrical engineering hurdle.