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Re:Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf] by schiffern on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:20PM (#18297877)
>Charging services are quite interchangeable

Not for the tenants themselves.

Tenants need permission from the owner to install charging infrastructure, and the owner has little incentive to allow competition because the vendor gives them a cut of the [overpriced] charging fee. Even California's progressive tenant EV charger law[1] doesn't apply if 10% (!) of parking spots already have chargers.

Your example of pay laundry is instructive. In theory laundry service remains interchangeable (after all, "water/electric service is already running to the buildings"), but in practice the owner simply forbids tenants from installing their own laundry machines (typically citing flood risk).

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

Re:Tesla Third Quarter 2018 Update [pdf] by dpkonofa on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:32PM (#18297923)
This is a great point and one that forward-thinking apartment owners need to consider. There's no reason not to start offering much more EV parking and charging residents a premium for it or offering solar-powered EV charging stations.