I’m confused-- You said “The majority of people with EVs are going to do the bulk of their charging at home,” but now you’re suggesting that the vast majority of people (maybe you meant apartment-dwellers specifically?) will charge at the mall or grocery store… Those ideas seem to contradict.

In my experience, charging at home (if you can) is super convenient, but when I lived in an apartment, keeping the car charged was excruciating: It’s either queueing for one of the L3 chargers, going at some weird hour of the night/morning, or spending hours at the mall or whatever every few days to use the L2… If I was relying on public L2’s only, I’d need to spend something like 6+ hours every 3 days at the mall to charge-- And that’s if the L2’s are even available, which they often aren’t! Not practical.

Now if apartment complexes and/or employers could all get on board with providing lots and lots of L2’s, we’d be set: It’s not an imposition to spend 6+ hours every 3 days at work or at home :) But that’s a huge amount of change to ask for, and I can imagine EV-focused service stations being a boon for folks whose residence/employer aren’t stepping up.