Reply To: Doctor sells electric car after EV charging blocked

Jimmy T wrote

Here’s my plan.  Schemes should find out how many EVs could be charged at any given time using exisitng supplies and  meters.  When they reach their limit (on a first come, first served basis), they should have a plan in place for phase 2, which could be establishing the infrastructure so that users pay for the supply to their own parking spaces, or the owners corp installs fast charging points on common property.

I think few OC’s would have reason to stand in the way of  the uptake of EV’s in buildings, but an owners corporation should provide a framework  to ensure that when the day comes and spare capacity in the building does become an issue, then the necessary sharing  that has to take place is a sharing by all, including those early adopters who got in first.

The way you do this is to have a by-law regime that covers all installations (including those of early adopters) and allows the OC to ensure that (1) whatever is  installed will be compatible with any load sharing that has to be done in the future and (2) if common property electricity is being used, then an enduring obligation to pay for it is created.

This helps avoid storing up problems for future strata committees. It  does not mean that everyone has to go off and pay a lawyer.  There can be a standard by-law that gets Consented to whenever a new installation comes up for approval. Once set up it is not complicated.