I don't know what the "charging situation" is that needs to be handled? I assume you do not own an EV and this is just conjecture? I have been driving EVs for eleven years and have no problem charging on road trips or at home. As far as the fix suggested in the title of this thread, a typical DC fast charging solution is a totally different infrastructure issue than found at most gas stations. It typically takes a fairly large transformer.
The lack of enough available and reliable chargers is the problem.
I did not have a problem when I drove across the country in my Tesla three years ago. Now that almost all the manufactures are adopting the NACS connector that Tesla uses that means any problems which I did not see should be solved. Part of that is because Tesla can access Federal money to subsidize further build out of chargers.
Not sure how far across country you drove. But there are large gaps without chargers. And you have to pick a route that has them.
I obviously picked an Interstate. I did have to detour South to miss the flooding in Iowa. The motel we stayed at in Nashville had a Level 2 charger which we used a few nights. The return trip though New Orleans and Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
Why do you think it would not work as an only vehicle for most? I can imagine maybe having issues if you like camping in the middle of nowhere, but I live in Arizona, where there is alot of nowhere, and couldn't find a place that I had been that was outside of EV range from a charger. That's obviously going to improve as well.
Yes, I don't see the problem in the US, since it does not seem to be a problem for the rest of the world. China has worse elecctrical infrastructure than the US and last year 24% of new car sales in China were BEVs. Norway is even larger as a percentage of sales. I have always thought of this great country of ours as leading in technological innovation and change but that is not the case with EV adoption.
Too much bureaucracy here.
