The founder of the Tesla FB
The founder of the Tesla FB club lives in CA in a multi-unit condo. I believe he rents. There, where the culture is so strongly pro-EV, he was able to get a 240V charger installed and if my memory is right, the owner also installed a second for future owners. As the owner of four affordable housing units in New England I have thought about this. It would be so impractical I cannot imagine it ever happening. Burying cable underground is very expensive and requires two contractors (landscaper or construction and an electrician) be involved and get inspections from the town. It means cutting through the pavement in the parking lot in many cases, which nobody in NE would ever do unless it was an emergency. Finally, imagine a tired plow driver trying to clear a shared parking lot in a blizzard at 3am. He does not have to hit the EV charger to destroy it, the plowed snow has enough force to remove mailbox posts. This is a huge topic that EV advocates poo-poo as not a big deterrent to widespread EV use. It is. At a recent New England Motor Press Assoc meeting hosted by Nissan's Leaf team this was a topic that the members brought up. The Leaf team is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about EV adoption, but they had no practical answers to the multiple questions on this topic.