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Tenants often cannot count on the necessary charging infrastructure at home. The federal government and the cantons are challenged.
Electromobility is on the advance. According to current forecasts by the TCS, up to 60 percent of new cars on Swiss roads will be plug-in cars by 2025 – over 90 percent by 2030. If you want to make sure that the battery does not run out of power when you are out and about, it is advantageous to have a charging station at home, usually a so-called “wallbox”. Refueling comfortably overnight and carefree commuting to work in the morning, that makes sense – one would think. However, some tenants cannot sleep peacefully yet.
Waiting for the “Wallbox”
Rico Meier from Winterthur has been driving electrically for a year. At home in the underground car park, however, he has not yet been able to charge his Tesla. The normal socket is not suitable for this, it would need a charging station. There is no such thing in his parking lot, although he submitted an application to the administration a good year ago.
Claudio Thürlemann’s landlady from Zurich also says on the charging hose: “The administration has shied away from the costs of all the installations and has also given me to understand that they do not believe in electromobility”.
The administration has shied away from the costs.
At the moment, you only have to charge at the public column. However, the electricity there is on average more than twice as expensive as that from the charging station at home. The FDP National Councilor Matthias Jauslin calls for a claim to a charging infrastructure in a motion. For him it is clear: “We have to have a solution for the whole of Switzerland”. A similar or equally good solution is needed everywhere, so that when moving into a rented apartment you don’t have to worry about how you can charge your car now.
The Federal Council misunderstood the seriousness of the situation and left too much to the responsibility of the property owners and the cantons, says Jauslin. Of the latter in particular, so far only a few have supported the construction of private charging stations Subsidies. In the canton of Geneva, for example, there are 1,000 francs, in Valais and Ticino 500 francs. Individual cities or municipalities have also created their own incentives.
Tenants also have a duty
Matthias Schmid from the property manager Wincasa emphasizes: Depending on the property, the installation of charging stations costs up to 50,000 francs and is a longer process.
It is advisable to approach the administration early on, even before you have bought a car.
The E-Mobility Project Manager therefore also takes tenants’ responsibility and advises them to report to the administration as early as possible: “Even before you have even bought a car or are considering it. Then you as the administration can initiate the process in the background and it should also be possible to install the charging station more quickly. “
Until more landlords start moving, electric car drivers have no choice but to continue charging on the go, instead of conveniently at home.