I think I've put this out here before, but what the common wisdom isn't dealing with well is the entirety of a 24h use case of the EV.
Let's say you start at 8 am unplugging at your house and hopping in. Your car is pre-heated or pre-cooled (while plugged in). Off you go on your commute. Frequently, you can plug in at work for a top-up. Off you go for lunch--again, pre-heated or pre-cooled. Unplug, and head back home (maybe with a stop at the supermarket). You plug back in at home (during a peak period) so your house actually draws down the battery a bit to cool the house/cook dinner (automatically)...the battery serves to smooth the neighborhood peaks, reducing the load on the local grid. Overnight, the car automatically charges during the offpeak hours (say, 1a-5p; but it's smart enough to start at 12:30 if you drove a lot or drew down the battery). And you wake up to a nice day again.
I'm not discounting the "eye in the sky" aspects of knowing your patterns (heck, we don't even have Nest thermostats at home), but there's some real value here.
I concur that some of my travel patterns when driving cross-country can be troublesome (a specific one is going from SE Michigan to my brother's in SE Kansas City. It's about 11.5 hrs with a fast-food lunch, fast food dinner and one refueling and is about at the edge of my tolerance for driving; the thought of extending it by 45 minutes to have an extra charge or two is daunting). Perhaps that's what the Hertz 1/2 mile away at the end of the street or the Avis 2 miles north of us is for.
Having retired from GM, they would survey us (employees) every so often to gauge tolerance for EV range. I (still) think I'd be cool with an EV that with a full battery could make it from Detroit to Chicago/Indianapolis/Cincinnati/Cleveland/Pittsburgh/Toronto/Traverse City after work (i.e. a 4 hour drive ...just hop in after work and go).