Even when you read all this stuff about super-capacitors and next-gen battery and charging options, most people are going to charge it at home 95% of the time, usually overnight (because actually, that only takes 5 minutes already). So my immediate thoughts are that companies should (for now) concentrate on (1) providing about 150-200 miles of actual range at a lower cost (much lower), and (2) make battery packs as easy to repair as a set of brake pads... which as far as I could see are perfectly achievable (especially the latter).
To me, that would be far more progressive (and intelligent/ utility driven) than improving the Tesla territory $70K+ end of the market, and replacing failed packs at $12K a pop ad infenitum. In fact I had this thought of a pack that takes about 100 modules that look like my Ryobi One+ drill batteries (or thereabouts).
In the last 2 years I have needed a public charger once, and to be fair, if you need that, then it is useful to have a CHAdeMO rather than wait around with AC for ages. Besides (head scratch), surely if you have 3 x 50KW CHAdeMO chargers rather than one super 150KW one, then in effect you have the same outcome - with the benefit of two extra charging slots - so I'd assume what the world needs is just loads more current gen charging locations at the moment, with usage charges that are sensible. One solution: the i3 range extender, with a small gas engine where you push a little button and it maintains your battery until you get home has to be the best answer to all these problems yet - and the amount of fuel you'll end up using will probably be minimal.
There seems to be this obsession of convincing people that more power and speed is what they want, and I have just been given a new Samsung phone (my old one died, I had little choice) with 6Gb of Ram (???) and more processing power than my last laptop - all of which I use about 25% of when I look at the processes running. Then they make the battery completely sealed in, which is the opposite of what I would choose if I was asked, because now, if I have any problems at all, I have to go to the manufacturer... which is exactly the plan, and exactly what they want.
