It's okay to point and laugh here, because one week they're banning non-electric vehicles and the next they're saying people shouldn't charge their electric vehicles due to insufficient electricity.
If, and only if, you live in a place that provides you with the ability to overnight charge. So that probably excludes a vast majority of Californians who live in apartments or condos.
Charging cables are also pretty popular with thieves, since they contain a lot of copper and provide no inherent theft prevention, another minus for apartment/condo dwellers.
This will happen slowly at first, but exponentially increase.
And the inverse is true, too: as gas vehicles start to decline, gas stations will slowly start to decline, and then more and more quickly close. People will start to notice it's less convenient to find a gas station, and prices are less competitive.
This will all lead to a nice positive feedback loop for EVs and a negative feedback loop for gas cars.
> This will happen slowly at first, but exponentially increase.
A vast majority, in my experience, of apartment building owners barely provide basic amenities to their tenants... I'm not as optimistic as you on this growth, especially when locations with fast chargers (i.e. gas station equivalents) will exist.
When are you advocating people charge their cars again?
Last night I plugged it in around 8:30 PM. It started charging at 10:00 PM. It spent ~2.5 hours charging, finishing up its charge around 12:30 PM. It pulled ~6kWh of energy over those two hours, so it was charging at about 25A of power. Then about 15 minutes before I leave in the mornings, it preconditions the car and battery to the temperature I want using the home's energy. Its nice always getting in a comfortable car every morning regardless of how hot or cold it is.
I could have shifted this even a few hours later and it still would have easily met my needs. I could of had my car start charging at 4:00 AM and it would have hit my target charge by 6:30.