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by jonas21 1969 days ago
In the U.S., the majority of people drive to work, so even if you don't have a place to charge at home, you can still fully charge every weekday if your employer has chargers.

Where I live, you see these all over the place:

https://chargingforward.chargepoint.com/story/charging-forwa...

They also usually place them close to the building to reduce the distance they have to wire, so that's a nice side benefit.

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I'm not sure how feasible it is for an employer to have charging stations for 80% of their workforce. It would be a nice benefit though.

One nice thing about charging at your workplace though is typical 9-5 jobs are quire compatible with solar charging. So you put up an array of solar with electrical outlets in the lot. Excess power feeds back into the business.

As soon as there are enough electric vehicle ownership among employees, they can't reliably charge at work. I already can't, the chargers are always taken.
If all the chargers are regularly full, presumably they will build more chargers.

In the long run, having a higher percentage of EV owners should increase ability to reliably find a charger because there will be less variability in demand.