Someone in Manhattan owns a car? I have family and friends in Manhattan and Brooklyn and not a single car is owned in that group. They all find renting easier.
EV isn't going to work for private ownership everywhere.
46% of New York City households own cars. The number for Manhattan is lower, about 30%. This is, of course, a reflection of the reach of mass transit in NYC: in the neighborhoods best served by transit, car ownership is at 25% or below, and in those worst served by transit, it's very high. But this was the grand compromise of New York City of another era: we have an extremely dense, resource-efficient core, served by mass transit (electric vehicles!) so that workers who aren't immediately local to their jobs can get there without having to drive. It's sadly less true with each passing year (and not least because the many billions of dollars in surplus taxes NYC generates compared to much of the rest of the country are poured into boondoggles like highways in eastern Montana -- but I digress).
Within a 1/4 mile radius of where I live now, there are well over 10,000 people. Because we're stacked vertically and horizontally, it takes far less energy to heat and cool us; our water runs downhill to us rather than being pumped uphill over mountains or out of the ground. We don't insist on living in a desert but planting our freaking gardens and lawns like Eden. Taking my own apartment complex as an example, 353 families live quite comfortably with a peak electrical consumption of under 500kW. But the tenor of the times is to suck money away from here to dole it out to a bunch of "individualist" cranks in low-density states who like to pretend anyone could live where they live without massive implicit subsidies; so even though more of us use it than ever, our mass transit rusts, and it takes 70 minutes, standing, to get downtown to work from where I live when it used to take 45, usually with a seat, just 10 minutes ago. More of us end up driving, and so there's more room for EVs to do good.
There are millions of cars here. Our electrical generation is comparatively clean, with a huge fraction coming from hydro (Niagra Falls) and nuclear (Indian Point, among others). We have comparatively little solar -- but, then again, many solar panels
never actually generate in their service lifetimes as much energy as was used to fuse the silica which forms their PV cells and that energy is usually from very dirty coal burning, too... but again, I digress. In any case: turning as many of those cars as possible into EVs would be a huge win for everyone.
The problem, of course, is charging. Ranting at people for using local HVDC chargers -- supercharger or elsewise -- does nothing but make those of you who do it look like you can't see past the ends of your noses. Many people who have or would like to have EVs live where they cannot realistically arrange for overnight at-home charging. They must quick-charge on the way home. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Did you detect a certain tinge of New York nativism in the above? Believe me, I could lay it on a lot thicker. Did you find it holier-than-thou? How about that! That's exactly what it looks like to us when people from California gripe because they had to wait one time for a slot at a Supercharger and agitate for banning "local" Supercharging. Do you want the best for everyone? Do you want to see more EV use and less ICEs? Yeah? Then knock it off. Or, just keep it up, be smug, and don't do your part to make the world a better place. Your choice.