I disagree with much of this
I disagree with much of this article, which smacks of EV elitism. BEV's still aren't ready for prime time in many areas because of the lack of charging stations.
There's also the issue of a lack of standard, as CHAdeMO is still competing with CCS and Tesla's supercharger network, which will only further confuse people looking into EV's because it's essentially Betamax vs VHS again. Or HD-DVD vs Bluray to use a modern moniker.
Electric vehicles already have an alphabet soup of acronyms to deal with, so having to explain all these things like kWh, 120v vs 240v charging, EVSE, the tax credit which will start to affect certain brands soon, to the average person will likely turn them off.
Also, not everyone has a garage or driveway parking, such as apartment dwellers or people with only side street parking. A BEV wouldn't be practical for them because they'd have no way to charge it at home, and not everyone wants to wait hours at a charging station either.
Aside from that, the article completely misses the fact that the more plug-ins on the road, the less gas we're using overall. For every one Tesla Model S with a 100 kWh battery, you could easily make 5 and a half Gen 2 Chevy Volt batteries that are around 18 kWh in size.
5 people driving around Volts will cause less emissions in the long run than just 1 Tesla Model S.
And there's still the range anxiety to worry about. Yes, the Chevy Bolt can work for most people. But if they have to drive say, 4 hours away, they'll have to plan very carefully and hope there's working charging stations along the way. Or they'll have to borrow/rent/use a 2nd gas car.
In the Volt, they can just drive there and burn some gas. Then when just doing their work commute, the Volt is as electric as a Nissan Leaf or Tesla if their commute is within the Volt's EV range. I've done exactly that as seen in my picture below.
While many other automakers have pretty terrible EV range in their plug-in hybrids, it's cheaper to make a smaller battery with a gas engine backup for it so it eases people's fears of range anxiety or getting stuck on the road due to a dead battery until longer ranged and cheaper EV's show up,.along with a more spread out charging network to enable long distance driving.