Or do not have a garage, driveway, nor any other parking spot besides on the street, so can't charge at home.
That only works if you park your car on the same side of the street as your house: that is not true in my case. That charging cable would be running across the road itself.
Our utility poles are also on people's property, so the charging cable would lay across the sidewalk.
The "reserved" land is a street: what else is it going to be used for except transportation?
The house I'm in was built before cars were even invented (1890s) and there were streets then, but even as early as 1907 cars were being used (there are photographs of my neighbourhood with them).
A common resource that is unmetered just ends up being abused. There's lots of data on this, e.g.:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking
And I'm not sure if the various taxes that are paid actually cover the costs of all the roads (never mind the externalities causing climate change). Certainly there is a lot of public utility to paved roads/highways such that some level of 'subsidy' is probably warranted, but I think that congestion pricing needs to be done a lot more too: