First, you are plainly wrong about the surging interest in electric vehicles.
It is estimated that 2024 saw plug-in electric light vehicle (PEV) sales of around 17.5 million units.
www.statista.com
As for the other items: you are spreading FUD. I have an EV and live in a condo. I can charge in the condo parking garage. More buildings are providing charging stations all the time.
For those worried about range, perhaps they don’t comprehend the difference between gassing up and charging. With an EV, you can plug it in when you get home from work and have a full charge the next morning. So if the vehicle has a 200 mile range, you can start every day with that range. 99% of the time, people do not drive over 200 miles a day. Once you’ve had one for a month or two, you realize this and stop worrying about range.
I hope those building out electric charging infrastructure realize that putting charging stations at: 1) homes and 2) workplaces is the best way to spend the infrastructure money. Charging stations at highway rest stops are important for people taking long trips, but the home and workplace chargers are the most critical pieces of the charging network. In addition, charging vehicles overnight during off-peak electric usage hours will prevent a surge in EVs from over-taxing the grid. Many states offer lower electricity rates for EV users that charge during certain overnight hours.
1. US electric car sales are only up because of model Y sales. This means normal people still aren't buying electric cars, just the rich re-upping their Tesla leases, buying a second for their significant other, and the occasional others probably buying a second car that's electric. Europe and China have EV surges, but I know nothing about their driving styles vs the US's.
EV sales in USA (+4 % y/y) outperformed the auto-market (-15 % y/y) mostly from the introduction of the Model-Y. ev-volumes.com
2. If we're waiting for electric chargers to be added to apartment buildings and office parking structures, we're going to be waiting a long long long time. They may be added to AAA structures in big metro areas but what's the expense of adding a charger to every single parking place in every single apartment building?
Some apartments in my area don't even include an assigned parking spot, you have to pay an extra $100 a month. Also most apartments in my area were built in the 60s and 70s with natural gas heat, dryers, and stoves, so a 2 bedroom apartment may only get a 60A service. I can't imagine the upgrade cost from the utility to increase the street transformer to double the apartment building's mains service.
And office parking? If they're going to put super chargers in lots packed so full they're valet only, maybe they could just build another story to the garage so it doesn't fill up by 8:30am.
What I'm getting at is if electric cars are truly supposed to be the future, it will have to be much more accessible to the consumer. If someone scrapes by every 10 years to buy a used car that's under $15k that will last them another 10 years with little to no maintenance, how could they possibly afford to also choose an apartment or office that happens to include charging.
The solution to gasoline needs to be as easy as gasoline. Easy to travel, easy to commute, easy to park, easy for old people, easy for old houses, easy for rural areas, easy for dense metros.
I live in california and PG&E can't even keep the power on. Maybe tesla can afford to build out their electric network using stockholder's funds but if every house on every street doubled their electric need, we're all screwed.
