I know there were terrible
I know there were terrible limitations. If you wanted to go anywhere there wasn't a fueling station, you had to carry cans of gasoline with you. Which you could do. I suppose you conceivably could haul a Honda generator in your trunk if you needed to do so.
Of course, when is it due time? It's not like electric cars per se are a new invention, are they? Just think about the limitations when the electric car was introduced - 1889. (Technically it was invented around 1835! Gee - only almost 200 years old ... and it STILL suffers from the same limitations and issues that it first did.) And even in the late 1890's, we're still at the 50 mile range limitation that has plagued electric cars for more than a century.
So ... gasoline powered cars seem to have overcome their limitations, and quite nicely. Considering that they've NOT been around as long as electric cars ... now you see why I say electric cars (regardless of WHO makes them - this isn't me just picking on Tesla, which you seem to think it is) are the next best thing, and always will be. (Okay, if we manage to get Doctor Emmit Browns Mr. Fusion, then an electric powered car would make sense. Otherwise - no, not really.)