It’s weird because I associate car ownership with wealth! I’m in my 40s in London in the UK earning an ok salary and neither me nor many of many friends have a car.
You don't "spend" time recharging an EV unless your one-way trip is longer than the maximum range.
You get where you're going, plug in and come back to more power than you had before you left.
Provide bus depots with car parking in the exurbs so that there is the possibility of short driving commutes to/from the depot.
Use smaller, much more frequent, shuttle buses to pickup/drop off "on demand" between houses and those hub depots, then they don't need the car to get there.
a lot of people don't exactly understand just how _sprawling_ the US is.