The committee has been told that an owner would have to submit a renovation application to do this.
By whom?
This was the advice from the strata manager.
Are we talking about using an existing power point within a garage or carport that is attached to the unit and part of the unit area, not common property, with the electricity supplied from the meter of the unit? If so, the resident can plug in anything they like to that power point as long as it was sold with a fitted 10A three pin plug and has Australian certification, which it certainly would have if it is the portable charge cord supplied with an electric car sold in Australia.
If this is the situation, I recommend that the strata manager be either ignored or challenged to point to legislation that supports their claim.