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Back in April we looked at issues around electric vehicle (EV) charging in strata buildings and the resistance to it. A couple of weeks ago almost 500
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Good to see this is being discussed more. I’m lucky that the off plan apartment I’m buying in Melbourne and is due to be completed in the next few months has recently added the option to include an EV charger for my car space. Unfortunately they can only supply them for around 50% of the available car spaces. I do think people purchasing off plan need to start requesting this be included in the plans for the building as I’ve seen very few new buildings offer the infrastructure.
…the off plan apartment I’m buying in Melbourne… has recently added the option to include an EV charger for my car space. Unfortunately they can only supply them for around 50% of the available car spaces…
They really should be able to supply them for all. My guess is that
1) They are making them faster than they need to be. They could have have twice as many (i.e.100%) if their power rating were halved. Charging at home does not need to be fast.
2) They are probably relatively high powered outlets 7kW (32A single phase) or 11kW (15A, 3 phase) without a load management system. Consequently, they have to factor in the possibility of all being used at the same time as the evening peak load of the building and they didn’t want to pay for a higher powered supply from the street. If they were load managed, they could have them in 100% of the parking spaces without needing a higher supply from the street. With load management, the chargers would operate at lower power at times of high demand from the rest of the building but then ramp up their output when the building demand was lower, overnight and through the day.