Illinois’s Electric Vehicle Charging Act provides valuable context for why EVs and access to home charging are so important from a climate and equity perspective.
- Illinois encourages the urgent and widespread adoption of EVs to reduce transportation-related emissions, improve air quality, and provide safe and clean personal transportation. The law emphasizes that enabling access to home charging in multi-unit dwellings is crucial for promoting the adoption of electric vehicles. It asserts that owners and renters, regardless of parking space ownership or income level, should be able to access EV charging facilities.
- In addition to providing protections for property owners and renters to install charging equipment under reasonable conditions, Illinois’s Electric Vehicle Charging Act requires EV-capable parking requirements. That means a significant portion of parking spaces in any new or renovated residential development must be capable of electric vehicle charging.
- Unit owners can install an EV charging station in a unit parking space or common space. An association may also install an EV charger in the common area for the use of all unit owners. This is worthwhile in cases where there is limited or no designated parking space.
- Additionally, tenants may install a Level 1 or Level 2 EV charging system on or in the leased premises, an assigned parking space, or a parking space accessible to both the tenant and other tenants.
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