Yes and no. I have a townhouse form of strata and I have a 120v plug in my garage and easy access to my electrical panel so it was not a problem. The issue is almost universally that strata’s don’t like to pay the cost via the ‘public’ purse for a benefit that is then privately consumed. With strata structured apartment buildings where the parking is disassociated from the unit’s the cost of retrofitting an EV plug can be in the thousands of dollars for one run iff the buildings transformers and such can take the load. You get into the issue of ok the owner who paid the $10k to get the unit in their parking stall, the next owner will need to pay $10k too and the third owner will need to pay $100k because the transformer and panel needs to be upgraded. I usually suggest to people they get on the strata council and at the same time talk up their neighbours about the positives of an EV before they broach the subject with the strata council. If you are on the council and have support from neighbours it can go easier at least in the initial request. In BC.CA here the provincial government just announced a rebate incentive toward multi-unit building of $7500/ charger toward installing EV chargers so that should help sweeten the discussion as well.
Never the less it is a problem. Lawrence > On Apr 4, 2016, at 8:20 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The lesson is, when you "buy" a condo, you don't really own it. > > Same deal when you lease an EV - it's not really yours, as folks who had > EV1s and Honda EV Pluses 20 years ago would ruefully tell you. > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3579 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160404/68dd2d19/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
