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Tesla are already trying to tackle this problem, they have a car with a range circa 200 miles and at the same time are installing superchargers across the country which can get your car to 80% in 45 mins or so, I think this kind of innovation should put paid to range anxiety. As a small city run around the current crop of Nissan Leafs and Chevrolet Volt are brilliant so completely agree with you on that point, big car for long journeys, small car for bimbling about.
Bernhard-
The Guardian had an article on that a few days ago. Still sounds a bit more painful than filling up with petrol. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/27/tesla-model-s-electric-car-driving-holiday
The trouble is that encouraging people to have two cars, a city run-around and a big car isn't really tackling the problem.
aggi
Which is a reasonable consideration. However as a country, we have kind of fallen at the first hurdle. We have a lot of multi-car households. That's about functional/utility/day to day driving vehicles and excludes collectible, aspirational and recreational vehicles. Much of that day to day driving is well within range of an electric vehicle. However, most long journeys that some may find impractical in a constricted range vehicle are performed by the family in a single vehicle. The majority of those 2nd+ household vehicles could be electric vehicles with negligible impact on household members.