Lots of questions in this thread, many good ones. My husband got his first electric car earlier in the year so we've had a few months to talk about some of this stuff.
Yes it's easier if you have driveway parking and can put a wall box on your house. But, there are plenty of other solutions available and the good thing is, for most drivers you don't need to charge every night so sharing resources is very viable in most cases.
Range anxiety is mostly fake news. Who commutes more than say 80 miles each way on a regular basis? My husband's EV has a fairly small range and it's still roughly three commutes for him before the battery is drained. We could definitely manage two EVs from our one home charger.
Driving more than 200 miles without a rest stop? I wouldn't do that in an internal combustion engine car. By the time I've had a wee, a walk around the shop and bought a cuppa, a plugged in EV would have had a real boost of charge.
Battery life - cars need batteries to be in the prime of their condition, and it is true that they become less efficient over time. But not beyond use. There are onward uses for batteries as banks of charge for rural charging points, and plenty of third world uses such as supporting solar energy generation and storage in remote villages.
As for dirty metals, there is a bit of e.g. cobalt in every battery. Did you know there is also cobalt in every tank of fuel you buy? Meaning an internal combustion engine uses far more cobalt in its lifetime than an EV.
Our plan is to have solar panels on our house meaning we generate the power sustainably and drive the car "for free".
Milk vans were battery powered in the 70s, this is a very viable option for local parcel delivery now.
All the Park and Ride buses in my local big town are electric. There is a lot less to go wrong, roughly 100 parts in an electric motor vs. over a thousand in an engine.
For the community nurse - ask your employer to sign up to NHS Fleet Solutions. We have and the rates are very favourable.
Yes a lot of places need more infrastructure but who says you have to charge at home? In most cases you don't need to charge every night. You can use the app to control when you start charging so there isn't a big pull on the National Grid at 5.30. We charge between midnight and 6am on average, charging doesn't start the moment you plug in.
Tesla are planning for a future where people don't own cars, they subscribe to a service that provides one when needed. That's why they are working so hard on autonomous driving - so you can summon a vehicle when you need one. It would solve the problem of towns clogged up with all those cars sitting around most of the time and make better use of what charging infrastructure we have. Plus, when you need a bigger vehicle e.g. for going on holiday, your subscription enables that to happen.
Yes, it's a big change (and a long post, sorry) but there's a lot of misinformation out there.