There are Lithium chemistries that are "safe". The LiFePo chemistry is relatively safe. It does not catch fire like the cobalt based Lithium Ion batteries can do. Valence Technology had an mpg on their site where they shot a bullet into their battery. The battery got badly distorted but it did not catch fire nor explode. Here is their latest video: http://www.valence.com/technology/battery_safety/battery_safety_video

Home Power magazine had an article about Solar Hot Water systems recently where Solar Hot Water could save about 10 kwhrs of electricity a day. 10 kwhrs is enough electricity to power an EV for 30 to 40 miles. With electrical rates at $0.10 /kwhr, the cost of driving 30 to 40 miles is $1.00. With gasoline at $2/gallon and an equivalent 20 mpg car, the savings is $3/day. A $9K Solar Hot Water system would take about 3,000 days to pay off or roughly 10 years. It's called conservation and smart investing. As gasoline stocks dwindle, the payback could be much quicker.

The EVs of the future may have ranges of over 1,000 miles. I'm basing this on the tZero which has been driven over 300 miles on a charge on laptop batteries (www.acpropulsion.com) and the development of a lithium silicon nanowire battery with the potential of storing 10 times as much electricity as a laptop battery. (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html). The idea is that the driver will be exhausted before the battery pack is exhausted. Therefore, the batteries can then be recharged over night.
 
If a person drives 400 miles a day at 4 miles per kwhr, the car would use about 100 kwhrs of electricity. At 220 volts and 10 hours of recharge time, the amphr load would be about 50 amphrs which is doable for a single car but the parking lot at the Holiday Inn would be rather warm.
 
The answer might be car trains where you hop aboard a train with your car, or overhead wires fed by day time solar cells, or extender packs that allow several thousand miles of travel per charge. At your destination, you drop off the extender pack and come back to pick it up recharged. The extender pack would act as a modifying influence on the grid to keep electrical generation even.

The person writing the article screwed up. However, the Alatair Nanotechnology Nanosafe battery pack with a 100 mile range has been recharged in 10 minutes. The test was conducted by Aerovironment. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altairnano)
 
    The person conducting the experiment said the "conducting cables got warm" with the inference that the batteries themselves did not.

This is easily done with just a set of lead acid batteries. You might want to take a look at the EV Album (http://www.austinev.org/evalbum) where there are over 2,000 EVs listed. Many have ranges well over your requirements.

Using AC **and** heat together will reduce your range by about 15%.

The tZero (www.acpropulsion.com) has been driven over 300 miles on a charge using laptop batteries. A battery under development at Stanford University has the potential of extending that range to over 3,000 miles on a charge (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html). But there are many obstacles before a battery in the lab can go into production. Still the battery pack for the new MacBook Pro is supposed to be able to be recharged a 1,000 times compared to a standard laptop's pack 200 to 300 times and the MacBook Pro is suppose to run 7 to 8 hours instead of the current 3 to 4 hours.

Buy the book Convert It and build your own.

We have two Rovers crawling around on Mars for over 5 years in -100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures using only solar cells and Lithium Ion batteries. A portion of the battery's energy goes to warming them but the Rovers don't go very far per charge.