Urban EV Charging Challenges

People in apartments must be parking their cars somewhere. You just need to put chargers wherever people are already parking their cars.

There's a lot of people who don't live in homes where they can install a charger.

In my apartment complex the electric utility installed about three dozen charging stations (which is massively overbuilt for how many electrics there are). It probably makes the most sense for the local utility to wire up any large parking structures and some percentage of street parking. Suburbanites can install a car charger on their property, and is not a massive expense. Also, most-if-not-all electrics can charge over 110v, it just takes forever.

Just build more chargers. When chargers are as ubiquitous as gas stations this won't be an issue.

why do people with EVs and garages install chargers in their garages then ?

No. Relating to not enough stations. Soon all vehicles will be able to charge there and fees on top in case they didn’t know.

A lot of people in Europe live in big apartment buildings ... they may park in the street... how would they "charge at home"?

> Everybody will be charging at home/work. Other places you'll likely charge are conveniently located places between long distance destinations. Rest areas for example.It seems like there's a lot of work to be done to scale this up for when electric vehicles get more popular. Many apartment complexes I see have no facilities for this, for example. But electric vehicles are also quite rare in this area.

I think the discussion is about people who park on the street outside their house or apartment. This is very common in some cities.https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/oct/05/electric-car-w...

no because carparks don't have the electrical power availed to support charging hundreds or cars at at a time - they will have enough to run the lights but not enough to service hundreds of high amperage car chargers