You can park in your living room if you have an electric car... only reason garages are separate is smells, heat, and exhaust from gassers. And extreme fire risk from having explosives in garage near where you sleep.
Great post except for this point... Kia Soul EV on a 30A circuit will only be drawing charging current for 5 to 6 hours if totally drained to near zero on battery.
Another point is that the cars only draw maximum current during the initial charging... it slowly tapers off as the battery is...
We got one of the "EV Project" subsidized chargers... (they paid for charger, we paid installation beyond having existing service in garage.) I paid about 400 for an 1100 retail (now about 800) charger. I paid permits and cabling beyond back wall of garage. I had it installed near garage door so...