Apartment buildings race to retrofitelectric vehicle chargers,...

Apartment buildings race to retrofitelectric vehicle chargers, even with only one user

Strata committees of many apartmentbuildings across Australia are racing to install electric vehicle-chargingsystems in their garages even though many still have no electric car-owners –or, at most, just one.

“Weknow electric vehicles are coming and we can’t ignore that,” said BrianJackson, the treasurer of the strata committee running the 175-apartmentWaratah complex in Sydney’s Potts Point.

Most developers are trying to getthe highest green star rating as they can for their projects, and they’re bulk-billingfor electricity and buying it as a group to keep costs lower for residents.These days, people are looking for energy-efficiencies throughout theirbuildings and they know such things will add value for the future.”

The pluses of EVs are many – they’re low emitters of greenhousegases, so are climate-friendly and improve air quality with carbon emissionspotentially cut by up to 90 per cent, while they can also be powered from greenenergy like solar and wind.

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