Most modular home battery banks can take EV chargers as an input. I know Ecoflow can, and I expect Anker solix can too. These circuits could charge battery banks instead, which the cars could plug into.

Sounds like they are getting battery storage ready.

It doesn’t cost much to run another conduit and breaker to support a battery that the electric company will allow you to discharge to the grid for $$.

I’d rather add the support for it.

At the scale of the electrical inputs for medium-large scale apartment buildings, the cost to be battery-ready isn't measured in dollars but in cubic feet you're reserving for the purpose. The breakers and line (and sometimes full transformer banks) already have to exist to distribute grid to the sometimes hundreds of units of apartment, so converting a standard demarc to one which would support a battery array wouldn't be more than installing the shunts and electronic controls. 1 afternoon for a 2-3 man team and maybe a bucket truck if you're feeling fancy.

The problem is that every square foot of floorspace is planned for in these complexes, and there's a zero percent chance that any builder is going to allocate the raw square/cubic feet to grid storage without the grid operator or city paying cash for it, and maybe not even then.

Now, if you want to try to legislate that all parking must be built on top of batteries or something, that might be workable, but I would consider putting it in the buildings themselves to be untenable.

A lot of parking is in a garage. If each garage space already supports EV charging, it’s not a lot more to support a battery too. Paired with the right tech you can limit the amount of current feeding all these things.

Batteries take up about 5’x4’x8”. The biggest obstacle is routing individually metered power to garage space.

Keep in mind that natural gas piping may not be needed, freeing up a decent amount of space, cost, and complexity.

I agree it should be higher, but I don't agree that it's useless.
At my place I am using plain old level 1 charging, 120 volts 15 amps. It's actually tolerable most of the time. I don't always get up to 80% every night, and I do sometimes have to stop at a supercharger, but it's usable enough for probably 90% of my charging. 240 volt 20 amp circuit call that 15 amps at the EVSE is 3.6 KW. That would be entirely usable for me.

I think they probably did it this way so it doesn't mess with panel size and service size calculations too much. Still, I wish it was bigger.

240V/20A will charge an EV with a 50-60kwh battery in around 12 hours. That's a typical SUV EV battery. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good options yet for EVs that aren't SUVs, especially if you avoid Tesla. In any case, there are some options coming down the pipe, and they'll likely have smaller batteries because they just don't weigh that much.

That much is fine for daily use and the occasional road trip. The day after a big drive, you'll have enough to get to work and back. The situation it might not handle is back to back long trips. Overall, not ideal, but adequate.

Also won’t handle:
- if you forget to charge, that’s it for the day
- if you have multiple cars or guests with cars

My level 2 charger will give me enough juice to run an errand in 30-60 minutes, and my typical charge is 2-3 hours. If I had a second car and only one charger, I can also get that vehicle charged in time to do something the same day

While I agree, there is a line where the addition of more safety features just adds up little by little over the years and makes houses unnaffordable.

And at some point people dying on the streets from being homeless will surpass how many lives are being saved by said safety features.

Now, if we have reached that point yet I cannot say but the line is there and it will be crossed at some point if we haven't yet.