"Not «insoluble»" does not really define the smiling world of shining white sweaters strolling in the streets (it is not "problem solved"). I doubt that the coverage will be easily doable. There are apartments in remote places in the countryside (at least, it is very normal here). And in streets dense with parking need, which implies many aspects of space management. Moreover, if I had to imagine charging posts every, say, two spots, or basically every spot, in every inhabited street with the possible exception of villas with internal space for cars, I would immediately wonder of the infrastructural costs (which would be rotated to the final individual user as a component of the per-kWh, hopefully, but still worth noticing).
About the «very large percentage of people do live in detached homes»: interesting, I see data around that seems to confirm this (to Statista.com , in North America they should be 85% of the total this makes too little sense in consideration of urbanization: I would believe it more easily if it were 85% /in rural areas/). Other easily accessible data states that in Canada «55.3% of the population lived in single-detached houses [in 2006]», but with swings such as "7.5% in Montreal, 58% in Calgary". It reminds me of those infographics that show how compact and traffic efficient Barcelona is when compared to Atlanta (same population, 1/12 of the urban area, 1/6 of the transport related carbon emissions) - I suppose that a staggering amount of population living in single-family detached homes must entail that cities are affected (instead of being made of mostly buildings for apartments), which must mean "more Atlanta than Barcelona" as a concept.
Those who have this mysterious "85%" as set in their mind should be aware of this piece of info from Eurostat:
> In 2020, 46.2 % of the EU population lived in flats, more than one third (35.8 %) lived in detached houses and close to one fifth (17.0 %) lived in semi-detached or terraced houses
About the «very large percentage of people do live in detached homes»: interesting, I see data around that seems to confirm this (to Statista.com , in North America they should be 85% of the total this makes too little sense in consideration of urbanization: I would believe it more easily if it were 85% /in rural areas/). Other easily accessible data states that in Canada «55.3% of the population lived in single-detached houses [in 2006]», but with swings such as "7.5% in Montreal, 58% in Calgary". It reminds me of those infographics that show how compact and traffic efficient Barcelona is when compared to Atlanta (same population, 1/12 of the urban area, 1/6 of the transport related carbon emissions) - I suppose that a staggering amount of population living in single-family detached homes must entail that cities are affected (instead of being made of mostly buildings for apartments), which must mean "more Atlanta than Barcelona" as a concept.
Those who have this mysterious "85%" as set in their mind should be aware of this piece of info from Eurostat:
> In 2020, 46.2 % of the EU population lived in flats, more than one third (35.8 %) lived in detached houses and close to one fifth (17.0 %) lived in semi-detached or terraced houses