After all, commercials are very often just like this. Sadly, a vast majority of people have no interest in real information, and to be fair, the main purpose of a commercial is to stick the brand in mind.
And as memory is amplified by emotion, humour helps.
The real problem is range anxiety I think. PHEV is what we need now, as a transition path. With one, people can plug in for almost all uses, and still be OK if surprise usage means they won't have charge.
Other comments in this thread highlight this. Primary, because when traveling you have no idea about the local infra.
Where can you charge? What companies are cost effective? What hotels support charging, and for real, not just saying so on their website.. but only having one or two of them?
When you travel, all the knowledge which makes EV usage at home easier, are gone.
And so Hertz should have done PHEV.