“I couldn’t charge at home (i.e. lived in an apartment).”
This is a reminder that many millions of people in older cities live in single family homes or duplexes where they have to park on the street.
It is not just apartment dwellers that are unable to charge at home.
This has been a major “oops” that EV companies are discovering—most of their “woke” target audience does not have access to home charging.
Agreed. And the EV forums are full of people complaining that the road-side charging stations often have wait lines. But that's in densely populated areas mainly up north where the locals have to charge at road-side chargers too (much like me taking my ICE pickup to the local gas station to fill it up for local driving).
Here in the southeast that's not a problem. And since we got the EV, the only road trips we've taken were in the southeast (we'd rather fly anyway if the trip is long). Thus, virtually everybody at a charger in the southeast is a traveler, not a local, because almost all EV owners in the southeast can charge at home. Thus we haven't had to wait in line at a charger -- no not once.
Wokesters "dead" by the roadside are much less annoying than those running around loose!