golfcart said:
[I spoke with my employer and they sound supportive of the idea of installing some "chargers" at the office.
That's great, GolfCart. It's the cheapest option, and you should be able to add about 36 miles' range over an 8-hour day at 120v, or a full charge at 240v. If they wire it for 20a 240v, the outlet uses the exact same 3 wires and the same conduit size as a 120v 20a outlet, so there should be zero extra electrician cost... but it doubles your charge speed, and helps if you are preheating before leaving work. Also, if it's a 240v outlet, then the outlet is less likely to be used by the landscaper, etc.
You can also ask your employer for a bigger (30a, 40a, 50a) receptacle, but all of those will increase the wiring cost, mostly in proportion to the distance from the breaker panel.
They may have trouble installing a non-GFCI outlet outdoors. If that's the case, they may need to hardwire an EVSE (the electrician can cut the plug off a UL-listed EVSE and hardwire it). The cheapest UL-listed EVSE I've seen is AmazingE, but that is 16a 240v only. For 120v, you could sacrifice your Nissan EVSE and then go buy something else for home. Clipper Creek hardwire would be a great choice, if the company can afford spending a couple hundred more at the start.
Some employers care alot about the possible monthly expense. This is because everyone knows gasoline is expensive, but they don't know how cheap EVs are. If they limit the outlet to 120v 20a, then it can only supply 15.36 kwhrs per 8-hour day. In my state, business General Power costs 5 cents/kwhr on-peak + $12/kw monthly demand-charge, so an EVSE pulling 16a 120v for every hour of every business day would cost 77 cents/day for the kwhrs plus $23/month for the demand charge, or around $46 total per month (theoretical maximum). Per-employee EVSE charging costs less than per-employee office coffee. (https://www.costowl.com/b2b/office-coffee-delivery-cost.html ).
I think, like office coffee, widespread office and parking-ramp EVSE availability is coming. Not because people will need it to get home: newer EVs will make that unnecessary. Rather, because charging at home is impractical for most apartment residents. I suspect that in the US, EV adoption has largely been limited to homeowners (64% of US population and declining for 13 years).