KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 20): The cover story of the Aug 21 issue of City & Country looks at the impact electric vehicles or EVs will have on existing buildings, and the plans that need to be made to ensure there is enough power to keep EVs charged and running. 

Property experts highlight that there are several considerations that need to be taken into account when it comes to retrofitting existing properties. These include ensuring the buildings have enough power to charge EVs, the space to do so, the clearance from authorities to charge EV users, the capital expenditure needed to rewire or redo the overall existing wiring and circuitry, and many more. 

Moreover, EV battery technology is constantly evolving, and what is requiring an hour to charge today could only take a few minutes in a few years. This change in technology could impact the wider infrastructure, which may not be readily available to charge EVs on a regular basis.

In the meantime, solutions are on hand, like working with external parties to provide EV chargers and also, where possible, pull power to selected parking bays to charge the current fleet of EVs already on the market.

In the same issue, Australia-based Brandon Chuah, a director of Brand C — The Property Community, shares his thoughts on how to choose a buyer’s advocate, while Encorp Bhd talks about closing the Cahaya Alam chapter with the launch of the final phase of its Taman Cahaya Alam township.

We also carry stories from our Singapore counterpart about millennial placemakers reshaping Geylang, and an offshore story on the future of flexible work despite gloomy signals from WeWork and Zoom.

Read all this in this week's issue of The Edge Malaysia.

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