I think you severely underestimate the amount of financial investment that would be required if even a quarter of the current cars on the road were EVs, much of it needed in our already strained electric grids that go out during extreme heat and cold. We’re not even close to the point where EVs are a viable solution for most people. Particularly those living in rural areas.

Charging at home is trivial and requires no infrastructure. It’s an improvement on going to a petrol station.

Long haul trips are the tricky bit, but that’s surely not that hard to solve.

It actually will require additional infrastructure or at least some changes to metering to encourage nightly charging instead of at like 5pm

Don’t all EV cars have timers built in? My low end model does.

It’s also only charging at the rate of a standard wall socket, so I’m not sure the grid cares that much.

Maybe we never set ours up. No reason to do that unless the utility changes rates based on time of use

This is very much a thing where I live in New Zealand.

I’m sure that I could save money by tailoring usage better, but ‘cheaper overnight’ is about all I know about it.