> Apartment living + EV is not a technical problem, it's 100% a political/social one.

It is not 100% political. In a single family home you can (usually) put enough solar panels on the roof to charge an EV. An apartment has only one roof for dozens (or even hundreds) of apartments, so that's not going to work.

Why would you need panels? You just need a power plug that's connected to the same grid as the home/apartments.

It's a technical problem, too. You can't just run an extension cord and happily power vehicles for an apartment block.

Depends on your aparment blocks of course. Over here we have parking spaces for residdents living in apartments, which have electrical outlets. The space is already there, just needs an electrical upgrade

"just" carries a lot of weight in that sentence

Considering we've switched from overhanging wires to putting our electric infrastructure underground (very, very expensive), I think we can pull off upgrades in parking lots too.

You need to run a fancy extension cord and use a professional to do it. That's pretty much it. You can spend a little extra to get load balancing if needed, the tech is multiple decades old.

The only issue is people being against it politically/socially.

Ah yes. Let's forget about the additional load on the grid. All we have to do is run a fancy cord

Load management is 50+ year old technology, you don't need a javascript-powered IoT device with NFTs and Blockchain to do it.

The chargers can either do it by themselves (adjust load to match hookup to grid) or the power company can manage it. Usually it's a lot easier just to manage it locally.

Ah yes. That's probably the reason that you "just" need to install a separate substation next to charging stations. Because it's "just" easy with a 50+ year technology.

Ah, we seem to have differing views of what is a "charging station".

You're thinking of the fridge-sized units with the wrist thick black CCS cable. Yes, those need very specific grid hookups.

I'm thinking of, you know, a household plug. The kind an American would plug in their dryer to. You don't need a separate substation to run a dryer, right? Even if an apartment building has 20 of them.

One of those can charge 100-150km of range to a car overnight easily, which is more than the average person drives every day. YMMV.

> You don't need a separate substation to run a dryer, right?

Oh yes, you do. If too many people run too many electrical appliances, the grid needs to be upgraded.