My take on electric vehicles are the good, the bad and the ugly.
GOOD: EV are good for short trips and I wouldn't even mind having one for running around town only. They are quite, a nice change from all the traffic noise. However, I have driven an EV and I miss the vibration of the engine that tells me the car is still running when I'm at a traffic light. They help with pollution, but they have a bad side effect on that issue (more on that later). The technology to be developed for longer ranges and shorter charging times for EV's will probably trickle down to other things like cell phones and computers.
BAD: Expensive charging. You have to have your house rewired to charge at home. When you're on the road and there are charging stations at a rest stop, somebody has to pay for that electric charge, it's not free and what I understand it varies quite a bit. Different charging plugs. For example, Tesla's are different from GM. If your driving a GM EV and there only Tesla charging stations, what do you do? There needs to be a standard plug configuration like the ones for your house. The batteries themselves create more pollution to produce than about 8 years of a internal combustion engine usage. Then what do you do then when they no longer hold a charge? Recycle or landfill?
UGLY: Race cars. Particularly drag cars.
I'm sure there are many other good and bad arguments (discussions) about EV, but as it stands today, the bad outweighs the good. Like them or not, they are the future of automobiles.