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One option is to have charging speed limits based on state-of-charge.

Maybe charging after your daily driving only charges at 3 kW, but charging after a road trip does the full 11.5 kW.

But yeah, I've certainly come home from a road trip with 10% battery, plugged into my 11 kW home charger, and had it say it would take 5 hours to recharge to my 70% limit. If I was only charging at 2 kW, an overnight charge wouldn't get me very far the next day.

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But how often do you need to go far the next day? If you come home with 10% charge (30 miles), and then plug in for 10 hours and add another 40 miles, is that not enough for work and errands the next day?

I don't know about you, but I mostly do long trips on the weekend. As long as I have enough to get to work Monday morning and am full by the weekend, that's almost always good enough for me.

The average commute distance is 41 miles, 10 hours of slow charge is a net loss.

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