Strata committees are refusing to install electric vehicle charging in block garages; it’s starting to affect people’s ability to rent and sell their units.
Apartment block strata committees are coming up with increasingly illogical reasons for not installing electric vehicle charging in their garages, and it is starting to affect people’s ability to rent and sell their properties.
Mark Muntz uses one of the charging points at The Richmont in Pyrmont, Sydney. “Looking long-term, I think it’s the only way to go.”Mr Clark said most buildings would get by with either a few charging bays, possibly using visitor parking spots with service providers handling the billing and payment, or metered normal power to owners’ car parks.
“In fact, the majority of urban trips use less than 25 per cent of capacity, so large batteries would only require an overnight top-up before a long journey.” Dale Cohen was secretary of the strata committee at the Richmont building in Sydney’s Pyrmont when he began lobbying his committee to introduce EV charging in 2017, two years after he bought a plug-in hybrid.
The breakthrough in his block came when a prospective tenant pulled out of a lease because there was no EV charging and no plans to install it.Mr Cohen told his committee that if it didn’t invest in charging facilities, EV owners would buy or rent in buildings that had charging. “Our investor owners got that immediately,” he said.newspaper.
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