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

[R Philip Dowds (rphilipdowds]

At Cornerstone, only our few accessible spaces are assigned to specific units 
or vehicles; otherwise, every unit has the opportunity for one car, first come 
first serve in any space.  Since we installed three dual port charging pylons, 
the latest parking guideline is:  If you have a gasmobile, seek first a space 
away from the chargers … but if nothing else is available, then park at a 
pylon.  We now have a few more electric vehicles than ports, but so far, this 
guideline is working out OK.  If and when most of our vehicles go electric, I’m 
guessing we’ll need either more ports or more rigorous scheduling.

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Thanks,
Philip Dowds
Cornerstone Cohousing
Cambridge, MA

> On Jul 26, 2025, at 4:27 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l 
> [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> Riderwood Village, Silver Spring MD
> 
> Recently of Takoma Village, Washington DC
> 
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