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Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Hi Peter,
Interesting thread. I drive a hybrid, my wife drives an EV........
............Again the electrical infrastructure in the parking garage was never designed to handle the load that is now being imposed. .........
DT
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Dave, you raise valid points.
We had to run 32 amp flex to our meter box and install another BCD for the Tesla Wall charger (admittedly being in a free standing home makes this easy)
Depending on the unit complex, installing high amperage flex to the owner's garage might be difficult or impossible, but I'd suggest a 15amp GPO would not be hard, nor should it affect the building's load capacity.
In the case to which I refer, the body corporate would not allow even that.
One would hope the building regulations would make EV charging capacity an imperative for all new constructions.
If the load comes off the common property circuit(s), it does not have to be "free" to the EV user. The BC could bill them a nominal charging fee or actual usage fee based on the car's charging data (I can pull up our Tesla data for the last year if need be, via it's App).
Just a bit of rational thought is required rather than a blanket "No".