First Name: | John |
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Last Name: | Kalb |
Email Address: | johnk@evchargingpros.com |
Affiliation | EV Charging Pros |
Subject | VW Investment Idea |
Comment |
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 p - 415.209.6585 | c - 415.717.5241 www.evchargingpros.com johnk@evchargingpros.com Twitter @evchargingpros |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-12-08 10:14:00 |
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