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

[Joel Bartlett (altairecovillage]

Katie (et al),
I'm glad to see other communities addressing the future regarding EV's.
Altair is in the process of evaluating consultants to help us design an
integrated energy system that incorporates EV's, PV's, emergency backup (no
fossil fuels), and solar carports. The technology is changing so much that
it's hard to nail things down. We live in a state (PA) that has not
embraced Community Solar (yet). The future includes two-way chargers so we
can use the EV fleet as a backup battery. Stay tuned!

All by way of asking those of you out there with any experience in your
community with any of these features, please weigh in! A good solar carport
design/provider? A good battery backup system? Thanks to any and all who
can contribute to the conversation. We're all learning, and examples would
be welcome!

Joel of Altair EcoVillage near Philadelphia

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:49 AM Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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
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