With all the M3s coming to market, this scenario might happen to many people.
I imagine so. This will force yet more apartment owners to grapple with their considered opinion of supporting electric vehicles in a more assertive way. Tenants will find out more suredly what the opinion of apartment owners will be. With the Model S and X, landlords probably looked at those as special cars, and treated them specially, but the Model 3 will be considered more normal (since it is), and they'll have to develop regular opinions about them.
Apartment dwellers should soon learn what the support for their vehicles will be. While we should expect landlord opinions to change with time, they'll likely feel compelled to put forth an initial opinion that should hold sway in their respective properties for some time.
6kW would be enough to charge a LR Model 3 from 10% to 90% SOC in 10 hours, meaning 8 hours sleep + 2 hours personal time with no additional car use. That's barely enough if the commute does pull out that full range by itself, something that I would consider an optimistic situation for many California commuters, but more reasonable for the wealthier Model 3 buyers since they can usually afford to live a bit closer to work than average commuters and would need a lot less time to fully recharge their cars. The Model X 100D, on the other hand, would require 13.3 hours to charge 80% of battery, which is 8 hours sleep + 3.3 personal hours at home; however, supposedly, the X owner would afford an even closer home to which they'd presumably have that entire 3.3 hours to themselves, and have picked up dinner supplies on the way home, and additionally, wouldn't ever need 80% SOC for a full commute so the charge time would be much reduced, and furthermore, would be able to afford and have access to much faster charging, so around 11kW, cutting that already reduced time down by about half. It really is the lower cost Model S owners who are in the worst squeeze here, due to Model S's higher cost and higher battery charge requirements trying to squeeze into limited resources such as lower electrical infrastructure provisions in apartments, compared to the Model 3 for the same distance.
I've often touted work solar power, work batteries and work charging pedestals as the solution to this. That's when the sun is shining, and the combination of solar panels and batteries can cut down on peak utility charges. The only hard part is that EVSE's are behind in supporting variable availability electricity for charging cars; that needs to be implemented pronto and is already way way way past due. It's being implemented in some installations, but only as specialty; that's unacceptable.
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I think I would be in a different category of lower wages and therefore unreasonable commutes for electric vehicles than typical apartment dweller Model 3 owners.
I found that when I owned my Model S 60D, I barely had enough time at home to recharge the car for work the next day with half an hour or so to spare, given the time of use rates scheduling and when I needed to leave. I was lucky to have 10kW available to charge, so the time of use rate from 11PM to when I left allowed me to get the car recharged by around 4AM, which is technically leaving late for me since I'm supposed to arrive early with time to spare. I ended up unplugging my car during charging most mornings, and often had to top-off someplace on the way home. If instead I had the Model 3, its additional range would have allowed it to use less electricity, but its slower charging speed would have counteracted that, and I would have been in an identical boat as my Model S, with a 5 hour charge time, technically not enough time by the time I had to leave for work. Most Tesla owners don't go to work early like I do.
Of my coworkers, I have a medium commute distance. A third of my coworkers live half the energy distance I do, and more than half my coworkers live almost twice the energy distance I do, and have only about 8.5 hours at home (including family time and sleep); their charge window 11PM-leaving time would be about 4 hours if they're cutting it close (they'd leave around 3AM if they're pushing it). My work type does not allow assumption of work charging, and in fact, I never see work charging available. My long distance commuter coworkers can't own electric, unless there's a leap in battery range of about 2x and relative home charging speed of about 4x and a car price drop by about .5x. None of the closer living coworkers can afford a Tesla, even though they would have enough time to charge it at proper time of use times if they did. By the time they could afford a Tesla, they'd rather buy a house, which would double their commute distance and half their charging time. It's a no go.
The only coworkers I ever expect to see in an EV are those who splurge for a 15 year old used long distance EV and live close in to work. That will be the Long Range Model 3 circa 2033. 2033! Yes, 2033 is when I expect coworkers in my business to start using EV's, without a giant leap in technology. As it is, 2036 is when Social Security is slated to run out of existence; the entire world will look different then. We'll have a colony on Mars, and political changes throughout Earth that seem surprising today will be old hat by then. My first coworker with an EV will pull up in a beat up old Bolt for the first time with an EV. A few years later, maybe a Tessy will appear.
