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@Scuttlebut said:
Strata has nothing to do with supplying electricity to cars. We don’t pay for their gas so why ?
Because the most convenient and practical way to use an electric car is with relatively slow charging at its usual parking place(s). Charging at home is usually enough to cover all of one’s local driving (as I have done for a decade) with rapid charging away from home generally only needed for longer, extra-urban trips.
Note that the residents may need the OC to supply the electricity or at least facilitate that but the OC would not be paying for the electricity. Individuals would be billed for what they use. It is no different from electricity you use at your unit for other purposes. The main issue for owners corporations is how to arrange this utility for its residents when units and their associated parking spaces are often not adjacent and charging cannot be readily arranged to occur through the meter of the individual unit.