[extra88]

I think proportion is more useful that quantity. 66% of housing units (that's all forms of housing, not just single-family homes) have a garage or carport. Also, given that there are ~145 million housing units, 60 million would be a bad situation.

> most are within 100 miles of a fast DC charger

That's not good enough. No one can spend 3-4 hours to drive 200 miles round trip, or even 100 miles, to charge quickly.

There needs to be a good solution for the 33% of households that don't have access to EV charging as part of their home. Until it becomes really plentiful, part of the solution may involve fast charging that only the 33% can use or that favors the 33%; people who can charge overnight at home should charge overnight at home.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1268-dece...

[toomuchtodo]

Fast chargers colocated at grocery stores people shop at at least weekly are a solution, Tesla did this (Meijer partnership), as did Electrify America. Walmart is rolling out charging at most of their US stores. Home charging is a solution, but so is workplace level 2 charging.

Can you charge at home? Do so. Can you charge at work? Do so. Can you charge at a grocery store or other location your task will take longer than the charging? Do so. This works for most Americans, while charging infrastructure continues to be rapidly deployed. The gaps will be filled, how fast is a function of will and investment.

US Gains 11,300 Ultra-Fast Chargers in Bet to Lure More EV Drivers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815932 - January 2026 (11 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=walmart+ev

https://supercharge.info/map

https://www.plugshare.com/

[extra88]

Chargers at grocery stores and other places of public accommodation that have lots of parking and customers who stay a while are good options. I don't know how many are enough; even fast chargers take orders of magnitude longer to use than a gas pump.

[loeg]

I don't think 2x slower is plural "orders of magnitude" no matter how you count it. It's at best a single power of two.

[extra88]

Filling the gas tank of of a sedan takes like 2 minutes, doing the equivalent charging is going to take a lot more than 4 minutes.

"Orders" may be an exaggeration but one order of magnitude isn't.

[loeg]

Filling a sedan takes longer than 2 minutes; you just don't notice the time.

[toomuchtodo]

If your grocery shopping takes longer than 20 minutes, fast charging will suffice. This is my experience with 250kw fast chargers.

[throwaway894345]

At least in the midwest very few grocery stores have fast charging. Usually the fast chargers are along highways on the outskirts of cities, and even then they’re almost always at gas stations.

[rootusrootus]

> That's not good enough.

Agreed. However, the number of people who live 100+ miles from a fast charger rounds to zero. Something like 85-90% of the US population lives within a metro area, and even in the least "EV friendly" states probably has a fast charger within 10-20 miles at most.

[NetMageSCW]

Nope - try again.

[rootusrootus]

I can back up my assertions with data, can you?