I think the point the previous commenter was getting at was that a car that goes twice as far but takes four times as long to charge from ten to eighty is practically far worse than the first one for long journeys, at least so long as the range covers local trips.

The obsession with range also puts a very wasteful pressure on the market to use bigger and bigger batteries, which add to both their cost and environmental impact, most of which may have not get used a few times in the cars life if at all.