13 apartment towers can’t get EV charging or induction stoves

In a recent The Fifth Estate article, Carolin Wenzel reflects on the challenges of electrifying her apartment building.

“In our house, we’d had the benefits of reduced electricity bills from our rooftop solar and were planning to buy an electric car. We had read about the benefits of electrification – massively reduced energy bills over time and close to zero greenhouse emissions – and we were keen to stay on the electrification journey we had started.

We hit the first snag when we found out there was no infrastructure for charging electric vehicles (EVs) in our brand new high rise building.

 So, we joined the strata committee and put through motions to investigate getting EV infrastructure installed – only to be told that there wasn’t enough electrical capacity supplied to our building to put in EV charging capacity for all the car spaces, even if the committee would agree to spend over $65,000 on an installation process.”

You can read the full article here on The Fifth Estate website.

1 Brodie Spark Drive. Wolli Creek. Photo via The Fifth Estate