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There are a ton of people who rent and live in houses that they could plug in to, there are also a bunch of apartments at least around here that all have outlets in the parking lot.
The issue with blackouts comes up from time to time, but have you ever tried to fill up your gasoline car with gas in a black out? and if we look at natural disasters like last year in Japan after the hurricane they were bringing doctors in via electric cars because it was easier to set up and charge an electric car in a remote location then it was to get the whole gasoline infrastructure working to refine, pipe, truck and dispense gasoline to that remote area, safer too.
My Civic Hatchback is smaller then a Nissan Leaf but it still gets borrowed by friends who need a larger vehicle to haul stuff, it also gets borrowed by friends who's cars are not reliable enough to make trips out of town and I know a ton of people who's vehicles never leave the county let alone the state on these 120 mile weekend trips that people seem to be making with their boat, at night, in the snow, to the woods where there are no outlets.
The people that I know who an electric car would not work for tend to drive trucks and have them because they are a work vehicle that is hauling tools and other work related stuff, they also happen to own a regular car and drive short enough distances that an electric vehicle would work for them, but they account for part of that 10% who drive more then 100 miles per day as well.
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