This post is a mix of hear-say and unfair comparisons.
A petrol car doesn't have only the "empty fuel tank" problem but also changing the oil, water in the radiator, brakes and whatnot that electric vehicles just don't have.
Top speed is a moot point because Tesla are limited at 130mph-210km/h... when in your life do you need to go faster than that? and even then these are limited to that speed.
Temperatures too i think is unfair because in Norway looooooots of people use EVs without many problems and continue to buy them (the sales dip happened because the state incentives ended).
Ugly interiors is the most non-issue of them all because it has nothing to do with vehicle being electric... just hire better designers to have nicer and comfier vehicles.
So what are we left with? Range and Charging.
The range problem is primarily a psychological one but there's undoubtedly people that need more range... thanks to continue investments on battery tech and smart minds at work the capacity of batteries (and therefore the range of the vehicles) is going to increase year after year so within... let's say 10 years this will not be a problem.
Charging it's the only true big problem for EVs to enter the mindshare of everyone, people don't want to wait hours to recharge the thing, infrastructures aren't there and home solutions are practically impossible if you live in a big city or in a condominium.
You might have misread my post (the one the other user was quoting), since I said "Electric vehicles will in the future be better than their combustion engine counter parts in basically all regards, the technology isn't quite there yet, since even a top of the line Tesla S has clear disadvantages over vehicles within the same price range" I wasn't saying that electric vehicles have problems and petrol cars are flawless, or even that the Tesla S was generally worse than its petrol equivalents, merely that in the future electric cars will be better in everything, while right now they aren't better at everything.
That being said:
Top speed isn't a moot point, it is a place that Tesla S is weaker than similarly priced ICE cars, it isn't even a disputable fact, it might not really be relevant to you, or even for most consumers but it is clearly a place where it is worse, also even unlimited it has lower top speeds.
Temperatures are most definitely an issue, heating the battery pack consumes electricity, which in turn diminishes the range, which in turn makes another issue worse, not to mention you also cannot charge the car at certain temperatures, and power gets limited too, it isn't some massive issue, but it is another place where Tesla S is worse.
Not as well built interiors aren't interiors that aren't as nice looking, that is a subjective thing, the usual complaint is that they aren't as nice quality wise, as in the materials and so on aren't as good as say what you get in a Mercedes S class, also comfort isn't just a designer issue, it is an engineering issue.
Regardless of what you think of range, it is still something that a Tesla S is inferior to its ICE equivalents, it is undeniable really. Also even as far as it being a psychological issue, it really isn't, you can say it is a minor issue since most people aren't constantly going over the range of the batteries of a Tesla S, which is fair they usually aren't, but when people do need to do it, it becomes a bit of an issue, and the more over the range you need to go the bigger the issue is.
I actually think the charging issue you talked about is in reality going to be solved through battery capacity, because there is a limit to how fast one can charge a lithium ion battery, and that limit is a % of the battery capacity, so if you have say a 200 kWh battery capacity you can still charge at roughly the same % (assuming the charging station scales ofc) giving you much more range for the same charging time as a battery that is just 100 kWh, in effect reducing the charge times to get a certain range, which means that with a large enough battery charging a car to a certain range can be as quick as getting that range by filling a car with petrol, obviously we are still some ways off until that point, but that would completely eliminate any need to charge a car at home or at work, also until we move on from lithium ion or some breakthroughs in the way they are made, we won't be moving that much past current Tesla supercharger charging rates (as % of battery charged).
But yeah right now charging is simply worse than ICE cars where filling up the tank is much much quicker.
Should mention differences in charging aren't as simple, because charging itself isn't linear.
I didn't include infrastructure issues as being issues with the Tesla S, because I don't think they are.
From an infrastructure standpoint there are a few issues, like say the availability of after market parts will be totally different on a Tesla than on other big brands, same as with mechanics that can diagnostic and repair certain issues, there is the lack of chargers as you mentioned, and there is also the different standards and plugs that exist, but these really aren't issues with the Tesla S, they are issues for people owning a Tesla S which at the end of the day is not the same.
