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Running electricity to individual car spaces will be a pain. It will probably be quite expensive to run one, but unless the government provides some sort of program, they are unlikely to want to do all spaces.
There are half a dozen companies that will provide systems that tap into existing wiring to provide off-peak charging to allow cars to be charged overnight when they are sitting doing nothing anyway.
… adding in EV charging is going to increase the risk that substations etc will need to be upgraded. I heard about one where they wanted fast charging and just the cost of substation and wiring improvements was $375k for 24 units.
We are victims of petrol-pump thinking. Off-peak charging will have little or no impact on the available power supply. The only people who NEED on-site fast charging are Uber drivers or anyone else who shares cars that are never parked overnight.
It is a good time to be an electrical engineer.
As it ever was.