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Something tangential to keep in mind perhaps: If the laundry is on a ground floor close to the parking and if I have understood correctly that there are individual power outlets that go back to the meters of individual units, it might be relatively easy to sort out electric vehicle charging. It might not cost much to get an electrician to extend or reroute the cables to outlets in the allocated parking spaces of each unit.
This will get you around the added hassle of sorting out how to meter electricity consumption for vehicles. With everyone connected to their own units, everyone can sort themselves out via their own electricity accounts. Early adopters need not be held back by others who don’t want to co-operate etc.
Don’t let anyone tell you that EV charging needs high powered outlets such as 32A or 7kW. Even though many newer EVs have on-board chargers capable of charging at 7kW, they comply with standards that allow them to run off an ordinary 10A power point with an appropriate adaptor, usually supplied with the car. I have been driving EVs for a decade and we now have two electric cars in our household and we have always charged them from an ordinary 10A power point.
