My local grocery had self checkout for about a year before ripping them out and putting normal ones back in. They don’t seem to be understaffed.

Not all stores are awful on all fronts. They don’t have chairs for their checkout people yet though.

I’m talking about apartments and workplaces.

Apartments would pay for it, not individuals. Having EV chargers would be a selling point, allowing higher rent.

Poor people are generally not driving EVs yet.

Think like a business and it makes sense.

That’s only $10/mo over a 5 year period.

Ugh, greedy landlords.

We bought an EV and it took a few trips for it to click that you don’t need to charge to 100% or even 90%. Hook it up, hit the restroom, buy a latte, then get back on the road with 50% charge.

You only need enough to get to wherever your longer parking+charge is going to be.

We also figure out the range anxiety. Getting down to 10% isn’t a big deal, especially if that last stop is going to get you back to full charge. Our EV doesn’t even have that great of range to start with.

Considering how inexpensive it is to put in a 30A, 50A, or 60A circuit, and how modern L2 chargers can both downrate dynamically and be activated with simple apps or cards, this is not a difficult problem to solve.

Unused ram is wasted ram.

I felt my back in this post.