Cohousing-L Mailing List: EV charging infrastructure

[Jack Wilbern (jaxaccount]

Blueberry Hill Cohousing in Vienna Virginia has over the past few years
successfully put in three double headed type 2 charging stations using only
community funds.

These serve roughly 12 spaces. We're now up to 11 plugins or plug-in
hybrids.  The households using the heads have an initial buy-in of two or
$300, a $50 a year maintenance fund payment and then a proportional share
of the separately needed electric use.

The sentiment of the community was that this was becoming a basic
infrastructure that ultimately the entire community would need access to,
at least given the political climate at the time. It also seemed like
resale insurance since any new household moving in might be daunted by not
being able to charge their electric car if they had one.

We have plans to install two more at another parking area that was put on
hold since we did not have enough vehicles yet.

I believe the ultimate intent is that there would be at least one parking
space per household that would have access to a charging head.

Not 100% access but given that ultimately each charging head would access
two parking spaces, that seemed a reasonable level of access and a
reasonable number of people to coordinate with. :-)

We applied to a local fund to help offset costs but there were very limited
slots and frankly, much more economically challenged neighborhoods that,
appropriately, won the grants.



JACK WILBERN
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: EV charging infrastructure (R Philip Dowds)
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> https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/if-you-own-a-juicebox-ev-charger-you-need-to-read-this/
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> > Hope this helps
> > Philip
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