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Almost every apartment owner who buys an EV hits the same wall: the car park has no power, the switchboard is full, and nobody knows who is allowed to say yes. It is not really an electrical problem. It is a decision problem with an electrical bill attached. Get the decision right, in the right order, and the rest is a job for a contractor — often one substantially paid for by a grant.
South Australia's EV support has shifted away from vehicle subsidies towards charging infrastructure, with grant rounds aimed at businesses, apartments and shared parking appearing periodically. For a strata or community corporation the practical route is to check what is currently open, and to build the project so it can be submitted quickly when a round appears — because these rounds are usually short.
Governed by the Strata Titles Act 1988 and Community Titles Act 1996, administered by Consumer and Business Services.
Programmes open, allocate and close, and the terms change between rounds. Check the current position with the administering body before you budget around any of these.
Government of South Australia
Periodic rounds supporting charging infrastructure, including at apartment buildings and shared parking. Terms and eligibility change between rounds, so confirm what is currently open before committing.
Official pageStrata or community titles. It changes the meeting procedure and the common property rules you are working within.
Grant windows are short. The assessment is the long-lead item and is useful regardless.
In Quarter: The resolution, the quotes, the scheme details and the building's own numbers are most of any application — and Quarter already holds all four.
Scope, cost, funding and billing. Pass it conditional on funding if you want to apply without committing the money first.
In Quarter: Build the motion from the quotes and the budget, send the notice to every owner off the ownership register on the statutory clock, and record the vote as it is cast — a decision carries its majority automatically and emails the outcome to whoever raised it.
With a resolution and quotes already held, an application is an afternoon's work rather than a three-month project.
One backbone, metered per bay. It is cheaper, it is safer, and it is what grant programmes are designed to fund.
Agreed at the meeting and minuted, so the arrangement survives a change of committee.
In Quarter: Recover the running cost through the same ledger as the levies, so charging is invoiced, collected and reconciled rather than tracked in somebody's spreadsheet.
The most common South Australian outcome, and entirely avoidable.
Community and strata corporations differ on meetings and common property. Confirm before you rely on a procedure.
Owners without EVs end up paying for owners with them, and the project loses its majority at the next AGM.
Waiting is the expensive option. The cost of getting a building EV-ready barely changes, but the cost of doing it badly — one owner at a time, running an extension of the house supply to one bay — rises with every ad hoc installation you have to undo.
The technical part is the easy part. Quarter handles the part that actually stalls these projects: getting a building to a decision it can evidence.
Scope, quotes, funding source and the terms of use, written as a motion owners can vote on rather than a proposal they have to interpret.
The right meeting, the right notice period, the right resolution type, and a vote that is recorded properly the first time.
Feasibility study, electrical assessment, quotes and correspondence, filed against the decision rather than scattered across three inboxes.
Most applications want the same things: the resolution, the quote, the scheme details and the building's numbers. Quarter already holds all four.
Whether users pay per kWh or by a fixed charge, the money has to be billed, collected and reconciled. That is the part that fails six months in.
General information about South Australia, not legal or financial advice for your building. Legislation is amended and grant programmes open and close — check the current position with Consumer and Business Services or the administering body before you act on anything here.
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