Taxpayers Paid $1.5 Million For The Dumbest EV Charging System I’ve Seen

This is what “the future” looks like when governments, green lobbyists and EV true believers get together with your wallet.At Sierra in Hawthorn, Melbourne, taxpayers helped fund a $1.5 million EV charging retrofit for an upscale apartment complex. The headline sounds impressive. The reality? A ceiling full of ordinary power points, a load-management system, and a setup that can only trickle charge a limited number of EVs at a time in rotating 10-minute intervals when demand is high.In other words: not proper charging infrastructure. More like a taxpayer-funded rationing system for rich apartment owners.In this report, I break down:• what was actually installed• why Level 1 charging is glacially slow• why this kind of system is no substitute for real infrastructure• what it says about the fantasy of large-scale apartment EV charging• and why the emissions argument is a lot shakier than the activists pretendBecause when you strip away the press releases, the ministerial spin and the EV-suck media coverage, this looks a lot less like progress and a lot more like greenwashed theatre.If you like facts, engineering, and calling out public-policy idiocy when you see it, you’re in the right place.