Since the 2020 condo-law reform, German apartment owners can no longer be blocked from installing their own EV charging point: the entitlement is written into statute.
"Every apartment owner may demand reasonable structural alterations serving the charging of electrically powered vehicles."
— § 20 (2) sentence 1 no. 2 WEG (translated)
What the right covers – and what it doesn't
The community must permit the measure; it decides the how (cable routing, load management, approved installer) by resolution. It may shape the execution, but not veto the principle.
Who pays?
The § 21 (1) WEG principle: whoever demanded the alteration bears its costs – and correspondingly keeps its benefits. Several owners can team up and split costs; later joiners can buy in against fair compensation.
Practical roadmap
- Electrical planning: check the building connection capacity and load management.
- Motion for the owners' meeting with a concrete installation proposal.
- Resolution on the execution; documentation in the property record.
- Tenants have a parallel claim against their landlord under § 554 BGB.
Manager's tip: one load-management concept for the whole garage beats a patchwork of island solutions – and lives on permanently as a documented legal event in eigentumwerk.