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I have an idea about how to get more charing in multifamily
properties. 

Existing multifamily property owners are not interested in
investing in investigating or deploying EV charging infrastructure.
 There are too many issues to investigate and resolve for a small
population of residents as EV charging is not an amenity or
business model that is required to support 100% of their
residents.

All they really want to do is be able to know how many charging
stations their property can support, but without a load study, site
walks and business/ use case decisions they cannot answer the
question.  And they will not spend money looking at the issue.

The answer to deploying more charging infrastructure in existing
multifamily complexes is to pay for load studies and EV charging
consulting.   

For example, I know a property manager who has 36 properties under
management.  They will not spend any money looking at EV charging. 
If the VW settlement would be the funding source for site specific
load studies combined with 5 hours of site specific education,
assessment and decision guidance (total cost 2,500 per project, or
$90K for these 36 properties) it would be possible for these sites
to be able to communicate an EV Charging Policy to their residents.
  

And based on previous experience let’s say 6 stations can be
supported with existing electrical infrastructure per property so
that a total 216 charging stations might be supported.  That equals
investing $415 per charging station to get the site ownership and
management prepared.

They don’t want to spend money on this yet it is a critical
component of making multifamily sites EV ready.  Given that AB 2565
allows properties with policies to have tenants pay for charging
infrastructure, if you eliminate the sticking point of cost to
develop the policy, you might actually enable the support of
property managers and owners, who so far have been extremely
resistant.  And tenants will know that they can install chargers if
they get vehicles, a win/win.

This idea requires the partnership of EV charging consultants and
electricians.  Property owners don't want to talk to vendors and be
sold something, this is an information project first, then an
equipment decision. Every vendor I have asked to support his idea
will not because they can't invest their profit margins from
hardware to get the project, so they are only going for low hanging
sales fruit.

John Kalb, is Founder and President, EV Charging Pros (EVCP), an
independent consultant, assisting commercial property owners,
workplaces, and multifamily organizations to define corporate EV
policies, explore site-specific EV charging requirements, evaluate
vendor solutions and develop deployment plans.  Since 2012 EVCP has
worked on hundreds of EV charging projects.  EVCP clients include:

Action Properties
Bently Properties
Boston Properties
California Apartment Assoc.
Common Interest Management
Equity Office
Intuit
Parkworks US
Presidio Trust
Prometheus Real Estate
Shorenstein Reality
Spear St. Capital
Trinity Properties
Watry Design  

John co-founded The Multifamily Electric Vehicle Working Group in
2014.  Participants discuss the challenges, opportunities,
technologies, best practices and case studies that factor into
deploying EV charging within the multifamily space.  These meetings
include the following organizations:

Alliance Residential 
Avalon Bay 
Buzzuto
Essex Real Estate 
Forrest City
FF Properties
GreyStar 
Irvine Company
Lakeside Properties
Pacific Urban Residential 
Prometheus Real Estate Group
ROEM Development 
Saris Regis
Woodmont Real Estate 
 

John has spoken on panels, published articles and hosted webinars
for organizations including:

Apartment Marketing 
Apartment Magazine
Buildings Magazine
CA Public Utilities Commission 
CA Apartment Association
CA Parking Association
Commonwealth Club Climate One 
HOA Magazine
IREM
Lodging Engineer
NAIOP Insiders
National Parking Association
Nat. Multifamily Housing Council 
UC Davis Sustainable Transportation  

John is on the Board of Directors of these leading transportation
organizations:

City Car Share
Emerge Mobility
Charge Across Town 
California EV Alliance
 

Previously John served as Vice President of Research for Hattras, a
market research firm focused on the data storage industry. Clients
include EMC, Hitachi, LSI, NetApp, QLogic, and Cisco. John has
developed dozens of market research and business plans for
companies seeking to enter new markets. In the 1980’s John was VP
for Investment Banking at Dakin Securities, where he sourced
private and mezzanine financing for companies seeking to raise up
to $50M. 

John Kalb | Founder | EV Charging Pros	
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