…because the vast majority of residences in the city proper are apartments with no dedicated parking, so where would you plug it in?
That’s literally the reason why most of my friends here who drive don’t have an EV. Personally, my 21-year old Jetta still works great, and I like that it doesn’t phone home with every single bit of data it can gather. Also it doesn’t gather data beyond “something broke” in the OBD-II.