Informal Community Meeting re Electric Vehicle Chargers
Saturday, December 3rd, 9-11a
Café Kindred, 450 N Washington St Ste F, Falls Church, VA 22046
Over the last few years several neighbors have asked about having electric vehicle (EV) chargers here at Laurel Mews. A few years ago, one of our neighbors came to the HOA with a plan to install a personal EV charger, which they implemented last year.
Their situation works because their parking space is literally just outside of their front door. There are other units that could conceivably do the same, e.g., along the 6711, 6701 rows, maybe 1 or 2 of the 6703 units as well as behind the 6712 row. But there are others, e.g., most of the 6704, 6707 and 6708 units, and probably all the 6705 ones, where it is probably impossible to have an L2 chargers at the individual units. The cable span would be very long and very likely would have to be installed underground.
As you may know, Virginia has a new ‘right to charge’ law that gives individual owners in an HOA the right to make an EV charger installation, if they are willing to cover the cost, and if easement and encroachment issues can be worked out with the HOA; two or three big ifs. Now with EVs getting more and more popular, many community associations like ours (and including ours) are looking into semi-private community EV chargers.
We are lucky here at LM to have a neighbor (Joseph Sigwarth) that works for an EV charger provider (LVL2 https://www.lvl2charging.com/). Joseph has agreed to have an open information session with the community on this Saturday, December 3rd, at 9a at Cafe Kindred (http://www.cafekindred.com/) to discuss the current EV charger market, and how individuals and communities can get into it.
Joseph will offer some insight as to engineering solutions for units that are far from the parking lot, as well as what would be involved in installing charging stations in our common areas for semi-private use.
You can find more information about EV chargers here at our website as well as any number of other sites. Fairfax County has a nice site on the subject,