There are alternatives.

Biggest issue with plug in electrics? battery recharge time.

Fine, have a chain of "fuel" stations and change batteries, one for one. It would require a standard battery form, but eminently doable. (idea source....R.A.H., shipstones, from the future history novels)

Secondary issue with electrics? Power. I'd have to search, but there are several proposals for neighborhood size nuke reactors. )Pebble beds, stable, exceedingly limited danger of any issues)However, due to the BS spread about nukes, they'll never fly. My thanks to the modern green movement.

Wind power? See Cape Wind for an example of how much the greens REALLY want renewable energy.

Solar? Workable, but not really in the current manner of discussion. Want to make it work? Powersats. Thanks to Ben Bova, solar power captured exo-atmospherically has a much higher energy density and can be beamed to receiving stations on terra, but instead we gut NASA and tech research to pay for the next generation of welfare recipients..............could be funding scientific research and expansion and creating jobs instead.

Biofuels just don't make sense in the current context.

Natural Gas would be a great resource, I'm sitting on top of a huge reservoir of it, (search marcellus shale) but the greens have managed to scare people with pseudo scientific pap.