We're just finishing our first road trip in our battery electric vehicle. It underscored for me one way that growing EV market share will make everyone's experience better: more chargers near other types of amenities.
Our car (Kia Niro) has a ~270 mile range, but the practicalities of the situation mean we have to charge every ~160 miles—about 2 hours of driving. This isn't so bad if we can stop and have lunch, spend the night at a hotel, let kids play on the playground, etc.
Right now it's a hassle to find a suitable restaurant/hotel/park that's near the right kind of charger. They exist but you have to go out of your way, or stop early, or go to a mediocre restaurant.
In a decade when EVs are 40 percent of the market instead of 2 percent, there will be chargers everywhere and you'll be able to stop at the best/most convenient spot rather than the one that happens to have a charger nearby.
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