People who have no easy way to charge?

Seriously. I live in a huge city and chargers are still so rare. Even when they put them in new construction parking garages, thats like six spots with a charger for the entire garage of a couple hundred other spots. If you don’t have your own charger I can’t imagine a single landlord fronting the 10k to install one. Even if the laws forced their hand with it, thats just going to be passed to the renter somehow and we are already quite rent burdened here on average.

>>can’t imagine a single landlord fronting the 10k to install one

I don't know where you got this number from - a new 7.2kW charger is £400, and I'm sure you can get it cheaper if you buy several hundred of them. They are hardly expensive devices now. Yes there's the cost of installation too - but 10k is an extremely unreasonable number.

I don't want an EV. Not because of a disinclination to have an electric car -- in theory, it would be fine. But I can't charge at home and all of the EVs I see on the market have at least one showstopper about them.

I, for one. Even though I live in a house with a driveway where I charge my PHEV, I had driven it too many times with zero charge to be wanting to get a non-hybrid electric car. While some of these times might not have happened with a bigger battery, many still would: having construction taking over the driveway and unable to charge, staying in a hotel and unable to charge, the city losing power and unable to charge would have happened with a bigger battery too.