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My building has heat pumps for heating and cooling, double-insulated walls and no gas lines (all electric). But, it only has enough parking spaces for 1/4 of the residents in the garage, with the rest in the surface lot across the street, and no thought of charging infrastructure.
There's a brand new building going up next door opening later this year that has no provisions for its residents' parking at all, and thus no charging. This is typical of Champaign, where apartment high-rises are going up right and left because of the university. As far as public chargers, for 140,000 people there are a grand total of three ChargePoint stations, two Tesla Destination chargers (whatever those are), one Supercharger, and one unaffiliated free charging station in the downtown parking garage. Apartment dwellers get the shaft when it comes to charging; in fact, that's the only thing stopping me from getting an electric car. Until I decide to buy a house, I have nowhere to charge.
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