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Originally Posted by JAM
Do you know which buildings?
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As a Rainey St. resident, I can say that my building (the Shore) does not have any EV Charging. The HOA absolutely does not want to foot the infrastructure bill to place individual charging on parking spots. In addition, for many people with 2/3 parking spots, they are not together (for some strange reason) and it would be challenging to meter the electricity to each unit. Instead, they are considering repurposing an unused garage spot for EV charging, and then adding EV charging to a visitor spot for resident use -- all for a share of the fee.
My understanding is that 70 Rainey Street -- rather unsurprisingly given how new it is -- does have EV parking, though I'm not sure exactly how it's set up.
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Originally Posted by H2O
Don't spend $.75 Million so everyone can get a charger in their own spot. Contact Austin Energy about installing a few ChargePoint chargers that can be installed in shared spots.
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I'm sure there's variation in the cost depending on the size of the building, size of garage, and a dozen other factors -- but, this seems like it would be a great deal to me, even if I don't have an EV. IIRC, my condo building has 191 units. If the total up-front cost is $750k, that would mean the average cost per resident is just under $4000. I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to about $10k a spot, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see a large number of people willing to pay that (mainly the younger tech employee crowd versus the empty nester crowd, of course). While it's not going to have some huge boon to resale value or anything else, it certainly can't hurt.
As an alternative to the extent that not everyone in a building is willing to foot the bill for a project like this, I've also seen it done where the currently-interested residents pay their share of the infrastructure and setup cost and the HOA covers the rest. Then when someone moves in and is interested, they will have the "endpoint" installed to their space specifically, and will also have to pay the HOA for their fractional share of that up-front cost.