Update 01 September
The Committee has approved the use of NOX power points installed to your parking space
NOX is a smart power point which meters your usage of common power, bills you, then pays back the Body Corporate for your usage.
The install cost is about $1800 to $2500 per unit depending on how far you are from the Distribution Board.
Usage charges are based on the rates provided by our electricity provider SUPA, and NOX charge 5c per kWh on top to cover the metering and billing.
Currently the SUPA rates fro common power are (as of July 1 2025):
Peak rate (7am to 11pm) is: $0.272141 ex GST
Off Peak rate is (11pm to 7am): $0.192151 ex GST
Note: The rate for our inidivudal lots are charged at a flat rate do with will be different to your own rates.
How it works:
If you use 10kWh through the NOX unit during off-peak, the building is charged $2.11 from SUPA (19.2141 cents plus 10% GST per kWh x 10 hours use)
NOX then add 5c per kWh (50cents for 10kWh) for their fees making the total charge to you ($2.11 plus 50 cents). ie $2.61
You are billed $2.61, which NOC pay the $2.11 back to the Body Corporate account, and keeps 50 cents for themselves as the service fee.
If you are interested in this you can contact the Committee here
Update 12 August
The Committee has made the following decision with regards to power points in car spaces and EV charging, so I'm passing this info on to you to help keep you informed on what is going on.
Power points in car spaces. Power points will only be permitted if they are connected through automated metering and billing back to your lot. I did try to get a quick fix through using manually read meters which was the cheapest and quickest option but this was rejected. I have reached out to SUPA to provide info on how best to achieve this. No further progress can be made on this option until they come back with a solution.
Personal EV Chargers to car spaces. These are approved as long as the solution is supplied and installed by EVSE as per By-Law as sole supplier, and therefore cannot be changed without a General Meeting which won't be until Jan/Feb 2026. The previous quote of ~$5000/spot was based on a 7kW charger. Gary has kindly offered to try and negotiate with EVSE for either a discount on this, or a cheaper option using lower powered chargers. Lower power will mean slower, but for most people that is not a problem as you can charge all day every day if you like.
Shared fast charger in visitor parking. This would end up being the cheapest and quickest charging solution on a per EV/basis, as a $15k dual charger could service maybe 100 EV's. However since this will require a noticeable modification to the Common Property it will require a vote at the AGM (Jan/Feb 2026), therefore this option is unavailable until then.
So that is the summary for all 3 options which effectively means that if you want a solution now, option 2 is the only approved choice.
Options 1 and 3, may become available in future but they will take time to sort out.
Update 26 April
If you are interested in finding out more about EV charging let me know.
The new EV Charging by-law has been approved and so the process is for EV charger installation is to get approval by the committee, and since the committee only meet once every 2-3 months (TBA) the best way is if we bundle up all the requests in one go. This way we not only get a bulk approval through at the next meeting, we can put a bulk order in with EVSE and get lower pricing, rather than each lot owner do it one at a time.
I have begun this process already and so far have 2 other lots onboard, if anyone else wants to join in a group request, please let me know.
Posted 6 April
Do you own an EV, or are thinking about getting one but not sure about charging? This page is here to help!
Belvedere has been fit-out to allow the ease of installation of chargers into your allocated car space, however this will need Committee approval.
A proposal is also being looked into to instead install a dual fast-charger in the visitor parking area. This would take up two spaces and would be a dual-use bookable charging/visitor space. A dual fast-charger would have the capacity to charge at least 50-60 cars a week (depending on car and charger spec). This would be more than enough for current EV capacity, as there are currently only about 8 or 9 EV's in the building. This is a work in progress with Winten.
The nearest public charger to us is at Contessa (Pacific Ave) which costs 35cents/kWh and charges up to 22kW.
Power consumption of an EV
What is the power consumption of an EV? How long is a piece of string?
Depending on vehicle size, power, driving style etc the range will 'usually' vary from around 15kWh per 100km to 25kWh per 100km.
If you manage 15kWh/100km and charge at Contessa at 35 cents/kW, that 100km will have cost you $5.25.
For comparison, a petrol car that gets 7l/100km would have used 7 litres of fuel which at say $1.70/litre would cost $11.90
Charging speed
Recharge speed mainly depends on two things, the speed of the charger you connect to, and the speed of the charger in your car.
The easiest way to think of charging speed is how many km of range you can gain in an hour of charging.
eg the slowest type of charging will only give you about 5km of range per hour of charging. The very fastest can do over 500km of range in an hour.
Chargers are classified as the following 'levels':
Level 1 - AC Slow, up to 2.4kW. Charge from a regular power point, can take 30 hours+ to charge an EV. ie Recharges range at about 5-10km/h
Level 2 - AC Fast, 3.6kW up to 22kW. Most EVs onboard chargers do not support 22kW AC charging, so even then you might only be able to charge at 7kW or 11kW. ie Recharge range at about 30km/h
Level 3 - DC Fast, 25kW up to 350kW. If your car supports it, it can recharge your EV in as little as 15 minutes. ie Recharge range at up to 400km/h
Cost to charge
Public chargers vary in price depending on speed and location and supplier, charging times (peak/off-peak).
At the cheaper end, Contessa has a 22kW charger that costs 35cents/kWh.
At the higher end, there are a couple of 'DC fast chargers' at Southport Park that cost 75cents/kWh
The difference is that the Contessa charger being slower would take you 7 times as long to charge your EV.
Real world example
My EV has a 7kW onboard AC charger and 110kW DC charger.
If I were to charge from 20% to 80% it would take me 7 hours at the Contessa 'AC Fast Charger' and cost $16.80
The same recharge at the Southport Park 'DC Fast Charger' would take 27 minutes but cost $36.
I drive less than 200km/week (less than 10,000km/year) and I only need to charge once a week, which costs about $15.