[Yizahi]

> Why are people so convinced that we need an EV charger per car at every home?

> After a week of just running the 1.5 kw slow charger I realized that was fine.

Wait, did you tell that you were using EV charger at home actually? I'm confused by the wording.

[mixmastamyk]

120v slow charging, only needs a dongle perhaps. Fine for most people who aren’t road warriors.

240v medium charging often needs a wall mount charger, though can plug into a dryer/oven outlet. More expensive but meets the needs of everyone.

[Yizahi]

Both of these are fine. The problem is that a majority of people have neither option at all.

[mixmastamyk]

If there are lights in the garage or street (there are 95%) then install is cheap. An untapped business opportunity.

Shortsighted defeatism is not compelling.

[Yizahi]

Sure there are lights. It will cost me somewhere around 3000$ (Eastern Europe btw) just for the work, wiring and meter. And I will need to get approval of the home owners, and I will need to pay out of pocket for the whole building complex insurance difference, because apparently it will increase from a default "all ICE parking" to a "shared ICE and EV parking" and the latter costs more. I didn't even ask yet, there are 200 parking spots in a contiguous space, I imagine costs would be prohibitive.

I'm actually considering EV as my next car, and due to some legal BS and my own mistakes I will likely need to quickly sell my ICE car at a loss next year and buy something in replacement, which I otherwise wouldn't do for at least five to ten more years, my car is just fine for me. But without ability to charge my car at home, EV is an absolute non-starter and out of the question, I will likely get a hybrid Corolla instead. Taking vacations at a gas station or walking for an hour there and back or paying for an expensive public transport twice for every charging is not my dream really.

[dghlsakjg]

Yeah. My point is that I never bothered to install anything more than the super slow free charger that came with the car.

If you have a good fast charger network available you don’t really need to have a 240v charger or even a charger at all.

[Yizahi]

I still don't understand. So you do have an EV charger at home? Just a slow one? The issue with EVs is that a majority of people doesn't have any EV charger at home at all. These is almost no one who would willingly downgrade from a convenient car to a car which requires driving to some far away gas station and sit there for hours in a parking lot in a cold or in a heat, if it's even working in the first place which they often aren't.