# LEGAL RIGHT to DRIVE an EV

**URL:** <https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599>\
**Category:** EV Small Talk\
**Created:** [November 20, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599 "2015-11-20T16:36:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ianian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ianian](https://community.electricforum.com/u/ianian)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599/1 "2015-11-20T16:36:20Z")

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GOOD DAY: I’m military and lived onpost. I bought an EV months ago. The apartment I’m in cannot provide a decent 120v 15 amps for a trickle charge. I have tried to lobby and convince the leasing community to give me at least, the minimum access to plug my EV, but it seems the’re hesitant. I suffered the inconvenience of their delay of approval and afraid they just might reject it in the long run. I feel I’m being deprived of my right to drive the car I want. I used my EV for work.

Question: Do I have the legal right (or is there a law that allows me )to demand that I should be given at least, a working outlet where I can charge my EV for work? THank you.

ian

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**Author:** ![Old\_Houseboater](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.electricforum.com/old_houseboater/32/544_2.png) [@Old\_Houseboater](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Old_Houseboater)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599/2 "2015-11-21T05:46:28Z")

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Hmmm

You are asking for a modest amount of services and have been refused. If your land lord gives you access to your 15 amp receptacle he might be setting a precedent. The next guy may want a 250 volt high amp receptacle for his Tesla. And so it goes. This is a future issue for Potential EV owners that live in multiple family housing.

IMHO you should trade for a Hybrid. I don’t believe any court in the world would issue such a far reaching precedent setting ruling

Rodney

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**Author:** ![EvForum](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.electricforum.com/evforum/32/322_2.png) [@EvForum](https://community.electricforum.com/u/EvForum)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599/3 "2015-11-21T15:41:14Z")

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Hi Ian

I am sorry to hear of the issues you are having but like Rodney said it is likely to become all too common a problem in the future. I read that some countries are now making it a legal requirement to add an EV charger to new homes - unfortunately this doesn’t help your situation.

Regards,

Mark

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**Author:** ![IssaquahWA1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/91b2a8/32.png) [@IssaquahWA1979](https://community.electricforum.com/u/IssaquahWA1979)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/legal-right-to-drive-an-ev/5599/4 "2015-11-23T10:18:02Z")

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having lived in apartments before and having asked for “odd” installations what I have found works is if you say “hey I really need this in order to use my vehicle, how about you let me pay for the installation and when I leave you have an improvement to your property” that has worked for me in the past when I was told no way.