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Originally Posted by Mr_Draco

And where do you think the ability to charge at home comes from? Infrastructure. The vast majority of the US simply does not have the electrical infrastructure in place to handle such a large quantity of people charging, it doesn't matter if they charge at home or at a station.

True, but it's not really the "infrastructure" that people are talking about when they talk about "EV charging infrastructure". They are typically talking about publicly available charging, which is more prevalent than non-EV drivers would ever know and it's growing. Whenever I drive an EV on a route in my nav system it points out way more charging locations than I would ever need to stop at. Because we are used to seeing gas stations everywhere and don't see chargers everywhere we assume they are not there. If you're not looking for them you may never see them. But if you're driving an EV your car will take you directly to them.

The red dots are just locations of Tesla chargers on my frequent routes between Detroit and Buffalo. The dark circle is how far my 80% state of charge will take me. 100% will get the Tesla alll the way to Buffalo. The Lucid can get there on less than 80%. If I added non-Tesla charger systems like ElectrifyAmerica, ElectrifyCanada, EVGo, Blink, iONNA, etc to the map there'd be a lot more dots.

As far as charging at home, for people who don't drive a lot a simple 120V plug can do the trick. I have a neighbor who has had a Cadillac Lyriq for two years now and never added a 240V line because she only drives about 20 - 25 miles a day. Her 120V line can replace that 25 miles easily overnight. And even if it didn't, her vehicle range is about 300 miles so she can go days without ever plugging it in.

As far as the grid is concerned, even with tens of thousands of EVs plugged in at night during off-peak hours, the grid is not taxed at all. It's middle of the day when businesses are operating, air conditioners are running, people are using escalators and elevators and the such that the grid is taxed. At night when all those things are typically idle, the amount of electricity pulled by EVs while their owners sleep is very manageable. That's why off-peak electricity rates are so low compared to peak hour rates. To encourage off-peak charging and discourage middle of the day peak demand charging.