Trying to artificially protect jobs in one industry while there's a huge labor shortage in much more productive things like infrastructure modernization or housing construction seems like the antithesis of an efficient market.
If we and others had depended on the existing electrical infrastructure to power our vehicles, we would have been completely screwed. A chaotic, uncomfortable situation would have become truly dangerous.
In general, I suspect electric is better in the average case, and gasoline in the case of emergencies. We see this with household power: most people power their houses with electricity, but may use a gas backup generator. For the similar reasons, we should probably drive electric cars to work but continue using gasoline-powered ambulances.
Or this kind of hybrid?
If you close a factory in city X and open 2 400km away in city Y people in city X strictly lost jobs.
There are a number of alternatives that are not nearly as onerous. EVs do not need charging every day, and few people in cities need to drive every day. If you only drive 10 miles a week you can just charge once or twice a month; I already have to move my car twice a month for street cleaning.
IMO portable batteries are the most obvious solution. The lifetime-amortized cost of batteries is <20 cents per kWh, and for larger batteries with low discharge demands it's <5 cents. A small UPS-sized truck drives down your street in the afternoon, dropping off low-profile batteries underneath your car while another guy plugs them in. In the morning the batteries get picked up and taken to be recharged.
In the end the infrastructure is about the same level of effort, but I think the portable vision is much easier to conceptualize. A lot of jobs would be opened for people making these charging trucks. Many more would be opened to drive and operate them, but I'm not sure auto plant workers would want that.
> in towns/villages every house will need its own charger
Unfortunately these jobs are not transferable to auto workers. The processes to make chargers are highly automated, unlike auto manufacturing (outside frame and component production). There will be a lot of very well paying electrician jobs opening... but that's not a profession you can just jump into, despite the number of people who try (and cause fires doing so).
Well now, this really depends on the city. Not everyone is living in bike-friendly cities, nor public transport works equally well everywhere. I know quite a few cities where practically everyone who can afford a car is using it as their primary means of getting to work and back home.
And the infrastructure needed to charge EVs largely already exists in the current electric grid. A simple adapter allows people to charge at home, and renovating current gas stations to become charging stations will be cheaper than many alternatives.