Making the rest of your apartment building cough up the cost for your electric vehicle has rightly become a point of contention.

Energy prices are on the rise (in a catastrophic sense) and there is no sign of Labor’s promised price cuts which they took to the federal election. Socialising the energy grid, as the Victorian Premier plans to do, is likely to make the situation even worse, given the shocking mess the government made of it the last time they were in charge.

Homeowners with stand-alone buildings are welcome to plug their luxury, planet-saving transport devices into the wall, but those...