There’s a bit of a stoush developing in the Forum over the charging of electric cars. If it’s not concerns about exploding batteries and subsequent fires, it’s worries about sneaky owners stealing electricity from the common property supply.
Oh, and then there’s the question of whether strata schemes can even on-sell electricity without breaching laws about who can and can’t be a energy provider.
What it seems to boil down to are people who are instinctively suspicious of these silent intruders into our car parks and those who are all gung-ho to get them in, regardless of the dangers they might (and only might) present.
Then, of course, you have the petrol-heads who love the roar of the engine and the smell of the fumes and see EVs as the end of civilisation as we know it.
But, in the green corner, we have our own Sir Humphrey who converted his car to electricity back in the days when Elon Musk’s only EV was his Scalextric set. Sir H knows pretty much all you need to know about the practicalities of charging cars in strata schemes.
One thing that has occurred to me – and it counters the arguments of those who say our buildings won’t be able to cope with the demands from lots of electric cars being charged. When the majority of cars are electric, we won’t need to run those giant ventilation fans in our garages for quite so long.
Win-win, I say. You can catch up with the debate and add your 10 cents worth HERE and HERE.
Elsewhere in the Forum
- Can we take action against a strata manager who has jeopardised our defects claim? That’s HERE.
- Does your strata manager have to inform owners when the OC has been taken to Fair Trading for mediation. That’s HERE.
- What do you do when insurers refuse to cover you block because of failure to repair common property and the owners refuse to pay for the repairs? That’s HERE.
- Is there a simple way to legally pay a resident for work they do around the building? That’s HERE.
- Why does it suddenly cost so much to register a by-law? That’s HERE.
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