EVs may be great for someone with a home and garage to charge it, but for renters or more normal folks who have to park on the street, no ones going to add hours to their day sitting at a charging station.
I think categorizing people into "with garages" and "normal" might be a little contentious. A quick search indicates 63% percent of all housing units have a garage or carport[1]. Housing Unit includes apartments and condos. I'm sure it's very geographic, and in large cities the number will be much lower - but many many Americans live in suburbs, where 80% will have garages - this doesn't make them abnormal or particularly wealthy.
[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-958-january-2-2017...
Where I live in the US having a garage is a luxury. However as you point out having a garage is much more "normal" in the US.
the math is clear on what's more normal
I'm not saying this will work perfectly in every location or for all cities. But it is relatively easy in many areas to add charging ports with existing infrastructure.
Q: How much do you pay to charge on-street?
By comparison, a Telsa Supercharger will run about 0.65/kwh here (but is obviously faster) and other brands I've seen as high as 0.85/kwh for rapid charging.
However if you agreed to an electricity plan where you pay floating hourly rates and you can charge at home with the right equipment, you could in theory pay less by only charging at low rate times overnight.
But given the the limited amount of driving I do (basically just weekend trips), the street charging costs are usually so low as to be a rounding error so it is not a big deal either way.
An even more interesting calculation would be how much you are shortening your life by standing at a gas pump inhaling carcinogens. Not to mention breathing the exhaust of all the vehicles around you.
LA has some of the worst air quality in the developed world [1]. Do you want to live there and breath that everyday?
[1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-04-19/l-a-get...
[Full disclosure: worked for years in a chemistry lab where we had "proper" risks, including but not limited to real carcinogens]
CDC: "there is no evidence that exposure to gasoline causes cancer in humans"[0]
Petrol and diesel are easy to avoid inhaling, not least because they both stink. It's trivial to avoid any potential risk by turning away from the vehicle while fuelling.
[0] https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/ToxFAQs/ToxFAQsDetails.aspx?faqid=4....
"There is not enough information available to determine if gasoline causes birth defects or affects reproduction"
My god, spend some time in a remote aboriginal community in the 80s and 90s before OPAL fuel was invented and you would have had all the information you'll ever need.
There's a reason they spent millions developing OPAL, and why regular unleaded gasoline (petrol) is illegal in virtually all aboriginal communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_(fuel)
From that article: "Opal is a variety of low-aromatic 91 RON petrol developed in 2005 by BP Australia to combat the rising use of petrol as an inhalant in remote Indigenous Australian communities. ... Typical unleaded petrol contains 25% aromatics, such as toluene, ortho-xylene and para-xylene. In contrast, Opal contains only 5% aromatics, which means that it has less of the toluene and other solvents which produce the intoxication (or "high") that inhalant users are seeking."
"There is not enough information available to determine if gasoline causes birth defects or affects reproduction"
Borderline criminal.
https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/country-sites/en_au/austra...
Since we're talking about EVs, note that if "electricity" had an MSDS, it would also be full of lawyer-speak warning about risks :)