I am in Malibu, and charge at home, plus as a writer, don't have a regular commute. But, I check local supers and between Thousand Oaks and Santa Monic there are a lot avail about 6am. So, as suggested, get your lazy ass out of bed and go charge your car.
I tried coming up with a nicer way of saying this, but it's not within me. Approaches like these are why people get upset about EVs and their owners... as if you're saying "make it fit your situation even if it's entirely inconvenient! Lazy ass!". And honestly, what if your work doesn't offer the flexibility of starting work at 5:00am? I have
atypically flexible hours, but the earliest I can start my day is 6:30am. Surely the path to EV adoption will fail if this is what is expected of people. "Sorry boss, I'm tired and useless today because I had to wake up 2 hours early and disrupt my sleep rhythm to be able to charge my car". My goodness.
There are just situations where an EV is really inconvenient, and that's fine. People are not lazy for not wanting to go
significantly out of their way (distance
and time) for something that used to be a 5 minute gas station stop pretty much wherever you want. At that point, public transit is honestly very attractive: it may get you around faster, is cheaper, and probably strengthens your immune system in the long run!
If my wife had to stop at a CHAdeMO station every day (she has two such options, zero Superchargers), in addition to her 1.5 hour two-way commute she'd need to charge for 30 minutes as well, in addition to driving 30 minutes total out of her way. And much like people in the Bay area (though not at all like it in other ways), there's a line of people waiting at these stations. Sacrificing an extra hour
at minimum (nearly double transit time)
every day is simply ludicrous. I realise she would not necessarily need to stop every day, but two days would be the max and would start to limit the ability to hop in the car and just go somewhere.
Sorry. Nerve was touched. I cannot fathom how not wanting to literally waste time and/or be awake at reasonable hours for charging an EV could be considered lazy.
My "lazy ass" is out of bed at 4:45 each morning, and I leave the house at 5:10 at the latest.
I applaud your commitment to early mornings.