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Most EV charging happens at home, not at charging stations. Charging stations are the exceptions when recharging EVs.

I'd be curious to see numbers on this. Currently I believe you, although as EV adoption expands and EVs get cheaper I'd expect to see more people who can't charge at home buy them and charge at work/stores.

Also I don't have an EV, but if I did charge it equivalently to how I use my gas powered car, 1 trip to where I needed to recharge outside of the house would likely be equivalent to about 80 days of home charging.

Maybe I'm not understanding your point, but here is my math. 80 days * 24 hour/day * 1.4 kW (L1 charging / 12A @ 120V) = 2688 kwh of electrical energy. If your EV has an efficiency of 3.5 miles/kWh, that 2688 kWh would let you drive 9,400 miles. Of course, if you had a 240V @ 40A L2 charger at home, that would be 18,400 kWh, or 64,500 miles (@ 3.5 miles/kWh).

I think this is currently right but a view heavily based on freestanding houses with garage or carport that can charge there. The whole apartment or city charging is still developing. At least in Australia.

I agree, but these are broadly the categories of people most in need of cars. The density provided by apartments often affords less inefficient modes of transport, like transit.

In many places in the world, this ideal falls short however, and hence a push for installing EV chargers in apartment garages is also needed.

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