Peri, The new code provides for direct wiring, so residents pay for EV from their own electric meter The old code requires 40% of the spots to have EV charging, but using a network service provider to allocate and measure common area power (presumably at a markup).
The bill authors really don't know any of the above. She like her colleagues are writing and passing building code reform bills aimed at reducing housing cost, but without any technical background in codes or costs. Here the bill author is very explicit: Trump cuts to housing money have pressed developers of subsidized housing. The goal is to reduce subsidized developer costs at all costs, even if it adds long term cost to residents of the same buildings. Note that developers of subsidized housing are both for-profit and non-profit in structure. Note that subsidized housing is called "affordable" housing in California. It costs much more to develop than market rate housing due to the funding structure and overhead of piecing funding together. True affordable housing would be done differently: with standardized designs and integrated public amenities and transport for a lower cost overall spend per resident per year over decades (e.g. as done in countries other than the USA). Think commie bastads or democratic socialism for the model. --- The irony of the current bill situation is if they asked actual code experts, they could have much more significant cost reduction in building code. But then would face another problem: equipment vendors and to a lesser extent the unions and contractors profit from code requirements. In particular the well established vendors of equipment profit from shifting code requirements, and in particular profit from being the only companies able to provide equipment meeting each new iteration of the code. --- The new code has a difficult to evalute effect on first cost. It's a muddy win maybe one way or the other. What's clear is that adding EV charging later is vastly more expensive, especially in concrete or post-tensioned concrete buildings which are quite inflexible. My personal push is for an empty conduit option. On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 6:44 PM Peri Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not in california, but what calif does, many states follow. I presume the > purpose is to reduce the cost of adding EV infrastructure to a low income > project. I'd like to understand the tradeoffs better. Presumably the older > code is less costly, but usually there are good reasons the code is > "improved". Is using the older code something we might end up regretting ? > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "Bryce Nesbitt via EV" <[email protected]> > To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Bryce Nesbitt" <[email protected]> > Sent: 23-Jun-26 18:34:13 > Subject: [EVDL] AB2748 > > Dear members of the EV community, > California bill AB2748 is coming up for a vote June 30th. > > This bill creates, for the first time an income distinction in building > code. Under the bill low income projects would be required to use the older > building code for EV provisions. Developers of affordable projects would > be prohibited from complying with the current code, even if they find that > better for their residents. > > A signon letter is here (no password or login needed): > https://www.dropbox.com/t/Y3H9bpbrZUyVSkHn > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20260623/0c4f8836/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > OT: If you use an Android device, please read https://keepandroidopen.org/ _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ OT: If you use an Android device, please read https://keepandroidopen.org/
