You should step back and look at much bigger picture. Individually most of what you state is correct, but taken as a whole the premise is wrong, and leads to invalid conclusions.
I know several people who use their laptop and nothing else. Like, ain't no way I could do that. My summer engineering internship while I was in college consisted of programming PLC's with ladder logic. It was done entirely on a laptop with a touchpad. I was so unproductive. And this was nearly 30 years ago, so the touchpad really sucked!
Actually, demand goes down at night, so night is the best time to charge EVs. Have you heard of "base load" generation? The only fossil-fuel plants that get "cranked up" are natural gas units. Coal plants and nuclear plants run flat out all the time, supplying the power for base load. There is no cranking them up for demand, that's what gas turbine generation is for. Gas turbine generators are more expensive to run, so they try to fire them up as little as possible. They mostly come online during the day in the summer when it's 100 degrees and everyone's ACs are cranking.
Running solar (running? it doesn't really run, but we'll go with that term) actually helps reduce the load during the day when demands are the highest. You share your solar energy during the day in exchange for base load power at night. It's a win/win situation (except the customer gets screwed if they over produce).
Note, I used to work for an electric utility, specifically at a nuke plant. That company actually built a data center to take excess load from the grid at night to mine bitcoins. It's more efficient than backing down a plant due to decreased load. They also have a pumped storage hydroelectric plant that pumps water uphill at night to generate power during the day. So, don't think companies are cranking up fossil-fuel plants at night to support EV charging.
Note 2, I have a net-metering agreement for my solar, so I know how that works. Yes, it's accounting, but it's there to make the excess solar production during the day "fair" to the customer since they are helping to smooth the spikes for the utility.
That’s an accounting system not an actual way to get solar energy into your car’s battery. At night the power companies mostly have to crank up extra fossil-fuel generation to charge EVs (with very few exceptions). Solar energy produced during day and consumed during the day on other needs is already gone by nighttime and not available to charge EVs regardless of how electricity is charged to end user. I want to reduce GHGs as much as possible but playing bookkeeping games isn’t going to solve anything. In many ways it’s counterproductive because it leaves some people thinking that driving an EV does not generate GHGs, which means they could drive even more than needed.
Yup, which is what we said all along - it'll take time to build out infrastructure. Apartment buildings are going to be the big place to need them. I work in fire sprinklers, and most new apartment/condo building designs we quote now have at least 1 charger somewhere in the garage if they have one.
And sure, but this is a more "direct" situation of knowing it's baked into the monthly rent and/or power bill.
The last few years I did a lot of spreadsheet work where I was going back and forth between 2 or 3 different tabs or files and it was so easy. But my older coworker (who was really smart and did sys admin and some development work) worked from home using just her laptop. Not even an external mouse just the touchpad. And she also did some heavy excel work. And when she started going into the office where they had dual monitors, keyboard and mouse she literally refused to use them, claiming they messed up her laptop. As far as I know she’s still working that way. Talk about set in her ways (and stubborn as hell).
That’s great, you’re lucky. My electric rate at home is twice as high as yours, and gas prices in Texas are usually lower than national average, so energy savings from owning a BEV versus equivalent HEV doesn’t add up to much if anything; even if charged at home 100% of time. Excluding self-generated solar electricity of course.
You can charge your EV at night using solar.
It's called net metering.
This uses the excess solar energy generated during the day, to support the grid, "rolling your meter backwards" at night you can use that power sent to the grid to run your home or charge your car.
Of course, it's best to charge directly from solar during the day, and Many states are changing from a 1:1 Exchange of electricity to a less solar-friendly one. If the Politics of Electrification weren't so backward these days we could be doing what other countries are doing, and building EVs and their batteries into the grid, increasing grid capacity.
But alas, this is America in 2025.
Yes, it’s either charging or higher cost that remain major hurdles. Absolutely nobody I know likes the idea of having to wait 30 minutes while a car charges, even if it will only occur once in a blue moon. Also nobody I know likes paying more for a vehicle unless it gets them something extra that they value, even if it’s just attention, or a feeling that they are saving the planet. One guy I know loves that his BEV is quiet, another that it accelerates to 60 in 3 seconds. However, normal (average) people who have limited budgets are often forced to be more practical with their money. I agree with your other point that cost parity will be a game changer.