GRA said:
SageBrush said:
Passing wire in a parking garage is freaking expensive.
Uh,
no. No one much cares about the aesthetics inside a parking garage, so you can run the wire surface-mounted in conduit, far cheaper than burial or running it inside existing walls, while being weather-protected. The only drilling or digging that may need to be done is from the transformer and/or power cabinets outside, i.e. just one wall's width. By contrast, in a parking lot you may have to bury everything.
Uh,
yes.
At work when we installed 20 additional Level 2 EVSEs (*) into one of our parking garages, the cost of installation dwarfed the actual cost of the EVSEs. E.g., $30K to buy the EVSEs and nearly $400K (IIRC) to do the wiring, conduit, cutting and burial of lines, etc. Our facilities guy didn't care how much the EVSEs cost as long as they were under $5K or so each, because the rest of the project was going to make that number insignificant; in fact, he may have even used the exact same words SageBrush did.
(*) https://mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=24456 Recommendations for light-duty commercial EVSEs