Co-ownership: what is the budget for equipping car parks with electric charging stations? You will be amazed…

In five years, the number of electric cars will have quadrupled in France. Hence the need to anticipate the installation of charging stations in condominiums, which are still under-equipped.

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There discount offered by Tesla on its Model Y SUV makes you want to take the plunge of purchasing one electric car. It will have to be one day anyway because the manufacture of thermal cars will be banned in Europe in ten years, for obvious environmental protection considerations. But a barrier remains: where to recharge your Tesla every evening when you get home from work? The simplest and most economical would be to do it at home. “Recharging your vehicle at a terminal on the street or on the highway costs two to four times more expensive than at home»indicates to Capital Pierre Eymard, general manager of Logivolt, a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts responsible for financing the installation of electric charging stations in co-ownerships and with social landlords.

It is precisely in residential buildings that the problem of charging electric vehicles arises most acutely. In a private home, you can use a traditional electrical outlet, install a reinforced outlet or, better still, a charging station. In co-ownershipthis type of installation is more complicated because it is of a completely different scale and you are not alone in deciding, a vote of the general assembly is necessary. An often negative vote in view of the cost, estimated by Pierre Eymard at 25,000 euros for a condominium with parking for 75 spaces. Especially since some co-owners have no intention of buying an electric car and therefore do not see why they should help finance such an installation.

No remaining charge for the co-ownership

It was to put an end to this reluctance that the Caisse des Dépôts created Logivolt three years ago. This company works with private operators that it has approved, such as Amperus or Park’n Plug, which install the electric charging infrastructure in the co-ownership. Through these operators, Logivolt advances the co-ownership the money necessary for this installation. The remaining charge is therefore zero. for the co-ownership. Each co-owner wishing to have a charging station in their parking space – and not all co-owners – will, however, have to reimburse Logivolt, via the private operator, for their share the cost of installing collective infrastructure. A cost covered at 50% by thepublic aid “Advenir program”, capped at 8,000 euros, and which the private operator is responsible for requesting for the co-owner.

In addition to the reimbursement of this share, the co-owner must finance the purchase of an individual charging station, its installation and its connection to the collective infrastructure. In total, the co-owner pays on average 2,000 eurosincluding approximately 1,200 euros for the sole share of the installation of the collective infrastructure, indicates Pierre Eymard. “In theoryhe immediately qualifies. Because, in practice, private operators cover the entire share, so that the co-owner has “only” 800 euros to pay”.

A quadrupling of the number of electric vehicles in five years

The order of magnitude is the same if your co-ownership entrusts the work, not to a private operator but to Enedisa choice which will depend on the technical characteristics of the car park. The manager of the public electricity distribution network also provides the necessary financing for the installation of a collective charging infrastructure. “Between its share of the cost of the collective infrastructure, the installation of a Linky electric meter on its parking space, a cabinet to house it, the connection of the parking space to the infrastructure collective charging, the installation of an individual charging station and the cost of the certificate of electrical conformity, a co-owner pays on average 2,000 euros. Aid from the Advenir program reduces this amount to 1,000 euros»explains Olivier Huet, director of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure project in collective residences at Enedis.

Have you decided to join the ranks of the nearly two million electric and hybrid cars circulating in France today? A number which will amount to eight million in 2030then to 18 million in 2035, predicts the Avere-France association. However, of the 84 million parking spaces recorded in the 236,000 French condominiums, only 3.8% are equipped with a collective electric charging infrastructure, underlines Olivier Huet. He therefore urges the co-owners to “anticipate” the installation of charging stations, especially since it generally runs out “one to two years between the start of the reflection and the end of the work, due to the length of the decision-making processes in co-ownership”.