Not only would we have to build the cars and the extra power generation, but millions of people live in places like apartmment complexes where there is no electric outlet close to the parking space.
When the power grid was impacted by the fires in California, plenty of hipsters couldn’t recharge their cars.
Hard to sell the concept in areas that dealt with similar outages after Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, Hugo, etc.
Look at Puerto Rico today, and imagine trying to power an electric car...
Hybrids offer something, but are too expensive for most normals.