“I can’t understand anyone getting an EV without being able to charge at home.”
There are m lot of homes
that don’t have garages,
some neighborhoods allow
for parking on one side of
the street. And then there
are apartment buildings and
Hi-rises where individual
charging is impossible.
Agreed. And if I lived in one of those situations I would have never gotten an EV. My wife and I can charge ours at home in the garage. There are other factors to consider before getting an EV. Such as, my wife's car needed replacing anyway. We have two cars: the other being a gas pickup both for pickup chores and for times an EV won't do. We live in the south where the cold isn't a problem. And we drive a lot of miles, more than enough for the gas savings and oil change savings to be worth the extra costs of an EV.
IMHO all parameters one should meet before getting an EV if you're thinking about practical use case for an EV (besides just the novelty of it, or believing it saves the world from some armageddon or some such). Bonus points if you're like me and you're trying to be mostly energy independent with solar (I can't make my own gas for a gas car, but I can make my own power to charge an EV at least for local driving).
So there are some consumers for which an EV makes sense, even in a free market (if the Dims would let EV's be handled by the free market). And there are many consumers where an EV would be a nightmare (like if you can't charge at home).