Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: question re maintenance costs of a pedestal for an EV charging station that would charge 2 cars

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> On Jul 26, 2025, at 2:48 PM, Philip Semanchuk <philip [at] semanchuk.com> 
> wrote:

>> A final question I forgot to ask: We have limited parking and there is
>> concern that an EV charger would take one of the limited open parking
>> spaces. Was this a concern?

The plan at Takoma Village is to arrange the parking spaces for EV cars around 
the charger(s). If an EV is in the charging space, the other EVs would park in 
an open EV space. 

Not sure that is the clearest way to say it. Try this: if there are 4 EV cars 
and 1 charger, one of those cars would be in the charger space and the other 3 
parked in the other 3 spaces. One space could not be devoted to the charger 
alone.

There was some talk of charging one car every night so there would be an 
automatic changing of parking spaces in the morning and evening as people come 
back and forth from work. People don’t have a good sense of how much charging 
they will need yet so it will be a developing process. 

If that doesn’t work, Takoma Village uses CalendarWiz and can devote one 
calendar to the EV schedule.

(Anyone from Takoma Village, please correct this if there have been more recent 
ideas.)

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Riderwood Village, Silver Spring MD

Recently of Takoma Village, Washington DC