Guide category
Prepare for a building-specific EV charging capacity assessment, compare shared or managed options, and follow local planning paths in British Columbia, Ontario, and Québec.
Apartment EV charging depends on the building’s electrical service, existing loads, parking layout, meter arrangement, and the charging service residents need. A charger’s rating by itself cannot show whether a building can support one charger or a future shared system.
These guides help residents, managers, and boards prepare for a qualified electrical assessment and understand the choices that follow. They explain what information to gather and how to compare approaches. They do not calculate a property’s capacity or replace electrical design, utility review, permits, or local code checks.
After electrical feasibility is understood, continue with the apartment installation process, the building EV-readiness guide, or managed charging for apartment buildings. Local permissions and permits are covered in checking EV charging rules and approvals.
Building electrical capacity
Use Québec’s building-planning guidance to prepare an electrical assessment, compare shared or private charging, and check current code and incentive conditions.
Building electrical capacity
Learn the usual scope of a British Columbia strata electrical planning report, its independent-supply exception, and how deadlines vary.
Building electrical capacity
Compare increasing electrical service capacity with lower-power, shared, and managed charging when an apartment building has limited capacity.
Building electrical capacity
Use a practical sequence to prepare a shared apartment garage for EV charging without guessing a charger count or replacing a professional load assessment.
Building electrical capacity
See how Toronto Hydro and Hydro One describe preliminary screening, connection applications, and service expansion for multi-unit EV charging projects.
Building electrical capacity
Compare utility meters, shared accounts, submeters, and charger data before a multi-unit building chooses how to track EV charging.
Building electrical capacity
Learn what information to gather before an electrician or electrical designer assesses EV charging capacity at an apartment, condo, or shared-parking building.