Best Charger for Condo?

[afeudale]

Thanks everyone for all your input on this thread! Just an update that we are going with the straight cabling run from the electrical room to our parking spot. 240V/40A. No transformers. Will post pics once it's completed

 

[menaknow]

Thanks everyone for all your input on this thread! Just an update that we are going with the straight cabling run from the electrical room to our parking spot. 240V/40A. No transformers. Will post pics once it's completed

How did it work out afeudale?
I’m located in GTA (Mississauga) trying to get my condo board to approve a charger also.

Love to know how it went for you

 

[eugenege]

Thanks everyone for all your input on this thread! Just an update that we are going with the straight cabling run from the electrical room to our parking spot. 240V/40A. No transformers. Will post pics once it's completed

We are facing the same issue in our condo complex, and I'm also on the board trying to figure it out. Would you mind sharing your solution?

 

[jeremymc7]

Thanks everyone for all your input on this thread! Just an update that we are going with the straight cabling run from the electrical room to our parking spot. 240V/40A. No transformers. Will post pics once it's completed

I hope you can get it deeded to your parking spot / condo so that you can use it as a selling point; assuming you're not leasing.

 

[Kory]

What kind of condo is it? Is this a multi-story parking garage? Is your electrical service 480/277v three phase?

A friend in Seattle did this same thing.

Their solution was to take a spare breaker (400a?) off the building main switch gear (480v) and run it through a set of stacked panels (on multiple floors of the garage - passing through from one panel to the next). Then when residents wanted to install charging they would pay for the conduit from those stacked panels to their spot and they would buy their own 480/240v step down transformer bolted to the wall/ceiling in their spot (they are pretty small).

Each user pays a monthly fee for power and they just don't bother metering it since power is so cheap in Seattle that the overhead of some kind of system to track it or labor to bill it just makes no sense.

This provided a great incremental way to build out EV charging and it let each person chose what kind of EVSE they wanted and what amperage they wanted to pay for. Running the wire to the parking spots at 480v is also much more efficient as it does not require as large conduit/wire and it can go farther distances without voltage drop.

The commercial EVSE market is a racket right now...

Would love to know what company they used in Seattle. Thanks

 

[3rdpower]

Would love to know what company they used in Seattle. Thanks

Yeah need to Knute