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

[Philip Semanchuk (philip]

> On Jul 26, 2025, at 4:58 PM, R Philip Dowds via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.


Thanks for mentioning accessible spaces, because it reminded me about another 
point of our installation. Our charging station is in front of a reserved 
accessible space. The space next to it is where people park to charge their 
EVs. We were fortunate that this was a good location for the charging station, 
because it means the one charging station (which has a 25’ cord) can serve both 
the accessible and standard space.

Philip
Pacifica Cohousing
Carrboro NC