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Originally Posted by wrenegade
I'm sorry, but in what fucking world does it only cost $300 to add an electric vehicle charging station? That article didn't mention anywhere where that number came from. The actual cost is much much higher. However, the biggest headache is with apportioning the costs. Are the charging stations check-metered on the strata's building account? Are they wired back to a particular strata lot? Do they have their own hydro meters? EV charging in multi-family building present a lot of problems. Hydro currently won't let you have more than one meter per strata lot, so they can't be metered separately. The BC Hydro/the province won't let you charge more than their own rate for power, so if the charging stations are check metered (via a 3rd party such as Enerpro) then who pays the monitoring cost? Are all of the stations hard-wired back to individual suites?
As a developer currently wrestling with all of these issues, I can tell you its not as easy as just sticking another plug in the wall and the cost is much much more than $300 per suite (it's going to cost more than that just to get the drawings done).
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All they are required to do is run 240V (30A?) service to the parking stall. From a build perspective, $300 per run might be a reasonable cost, I don't know. Obviously it doesn't include billing/metering/EVSE equipment, etc.
It doesn't have to be as complex as you mention. You could just levy a $50-$100/month fee on everybody that uses a plug to charge their EV. Not perfect, but easy enough to implement.