Even if you own something, there's no guarantee that you have your own private parking space to install EV chargers. Where I live (an old, very dense downtown), some houses don't have a driveway, and most can only accommodate a single car. Street parking is very common for residents. On top of that, apartments aren't guaranteed to have EV chargers installed.
What if they changed to law to allow residents that install charging infrastructure to have some preference/reservation of the spot they they improved in front of their residence?
Perhaps these needs additional tech. Something like a cable run from the house to the parking spot, enclosed under a grate that can be unlocked by the resident, as well as a lockout switch inside the house. Of course it could be better for the infrastructure to be public or for the city to contract with a private provider.
Yeah, certainly there could be more creative solutions here. Running power out to the street is a challenging and big job (particularly when there's sidewalks and other city property involved), but I definitely agree that gas stations aren't the most ideal solution, just that "put a charger in your driveway" isn't a universal home run of a solution.
