"This needs to be a law, otherwise bad landlords/condos/offices will try to make a profit here,”
I agree in part, and disagree in part. Yes, charging at home is vital. Yes, multiple family properties are especially problematic. But the solution isn’t a law requiring the charging infrastructure, but revising laws/regulations (much is in the electrical code(s)), which inhibit cost effective charging installations.
The PowersThatBe have instituted rules that make installations exceptionally expensive. Asserting that 100% max power, has to be accommodated makes retrofits exceptionally expensive. Intelligent “chargers” (EVSE to be more precise) can share information (e.g. Wallbox Pulsar https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwallbox.com%2Fen_us%2Fpuls...) and safely share a single circuit. Indeed, smarter panels and large appliances (e.g. heat pumps, ovens, etc.) could communicate their immediate future requirements before overloading and temperature sensors rather than upsizing the wiring could make it relatively inexpensive to provide many adequately powered parking spaces.
Also charging at work/school where solar panels are apt to generate their max power while people are tied up for multiple hours could provide “free” power instead of running it through an inverter, burdening the grid, storing it use later in the day/night when demand spikes and production ebbs. (Indeed, a long ago paper in CA, whose grid was overloaded) suggested providing free charging to vehicles at work, and then using V2L to get some of it back from the vehicles when demand is highest in the early evening). As long as we have large mobile battery packs, might as well exploit them rather than filling up grid sized batteries to push the electrons back into cars later ;>
Any home which has electric ovens or electric washer/dryer combos already has ample electrical capacity to usefully charge reasonable sized EVs (e.g. 1-3rd generation Nissan LEAF, MINI Cooper SE, even a Ford MachE) overnight if there is coordination between those appliances and the vehicle/EVSE. Or if the appliances aren’t intelligent, having enough intelligence in the panel and/or EVSE to throttle down if/when the appliances are demanding power could suffice.
The vast majority of people drive less than 50miles daily. It doesn’t take an exceptionally careful driver to consume less than 3KwH/mi (with our cars, we typically get 4 without undue effort). So call it 17KW required overnight. Even a 10amp 208v circuit could easily provide that overnight. Obviously sometimes people need more, and faster is nice (and facilitates sharing, note that cars don’t charge at the max rate, realistically charging slows at 80%, and again at 90% and the vast majority of users don’t need (or really want for max battery life) to charge to 100% several cars could share a 30amp circuit for overnight charging (even more could share a 50amp circuit; and with enough intelligence, turning that into a 60amp circuit for wiring and breakers shouldn’t be necessary — current code assumes continuous max load, and thus takes a 50amp load and treats it as 60 adding considerable expense).
Massively overengineered vehicles (Ford F150 Lightning, Tesla Cybertruck, etc.) probably need more, but those people are probably not living in small apartments anyway. And if folks can charge inexpensively at work, the overnight load goes down by a factor of 2 :>
So regulatory/legal changes are required to make EVs more attractive, but NOT mandating huge high speed DC chargers, and not mandating massively expensive retrofits to existing buildings, but removing high barriers to installing useful slower speed charging does require some policy/regulatory adjustments.
