Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Electrical vehicle charging stations

[Katie Henry (katie-henry]

Thanks, Bill and Joel, for your helpful responses.

We don't have any EVs yet, but people are talking about them and they'll start 
arriving soon enough.


Our members are looking to charge their cars in their own garage, as opposed to 
using shared charging stations and then moving the car back to their garage 
when it's done. 

The plan is to install electrical conduit along the back of the parking 
structure during construction. Whenever a garage owner gets an EV, the 
necessary wiring would be run through the conduit to a tap behind the garage 
and through the back wall of the garage to connect to the owner-provided 
charging station inside the garage. We would then have one shared charging 
station (to start) on the surface lot for visitors and the un-garaged.


I was thinking that a Level 3 charger, because they're so fast, would eliminate 
the need for individually outfitting each garage. I'm worried that we'll end up 
with a hodge-podge of equipment from different providers that can't be metered 
or networked and it will be an administrative headache. We should probably 
define some policies and standards.

I was really impressed with the ChargePoint networked cloud software for 
property managers! It manages users, collects payment, and then reimburses the 
HOA. Slick.

Katie