Florida Chargers

    Winter Garden · West Orange County

    EV Charging for Winter Garden Condos and Apartments

    Florida Chargers is headquartered at 830 Easley Ave in Winter Garden. The crews that install charging in Horizons West and along Winter Garden Village drive past those properties every day.

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    Tesla vehicles charging at wall connectors outside a newer Winter Garden apartment community

    Winter Garden has an advantage most Florida markets do not: a large share of its multifamily and townhome stock was built after 2015. Newer electrical service means more available panel capacity, which usually means a first phase of charging without a service upgrade and a lower cost per port than a comparable project in older Orlando housing.

    Florida Chargers, LLC is a veteran-owned, Tesla Certified commercial EV charging reseller and installer headquartered in Winter Garden at 830 Easley Ave. Florida Chargers designs, installs, manages, and maintains Level 2 charging for condominium associations, townhome HOAs, apartment owners, and commercial landlords across West Orange County, and holds FL Certified Electrical Contractor license EC13009718.

    The demand behind this is not speculative. Florida has 450,400 registered EVs, second only to California's 1,843,100, out of 5,689,100 nationwide, per U.S. Department of Energy Alternative Fuels Data Center 2025 data. West Orange County's household income profile puts it well above the state average for EV ownership.

    What Florida Chargers installs in Winter Garden

    The hardware is the Tesla Universal Wall Connector: a Level 2 unit rated at 48 amps and 11.5 kW, with a NACS connector and a built-in J1772 adapter. It plugs straight into a Tesla and charges every other major EV brand through the adapter that is already attached, so a property is not choosing a charger that serves one brand of car. Load sharing spreads available circuit capacity across multiple ports, which is what keeps a project from turning into a service upgrade.

    Florida Chargers designs, installs, manages, and maintains the system, and the chargers list on the Tesla app so nearby drivers are routed to the property.

    In Horizons West buildings completed in the last decade, the panel schedule usually still has spare capacity, and conduit paths to resident parking are often shorter than in older stock. Both reduce the install cost.

    A common starting point for multifamily is roughly one Level 2 port per 20 to 30 units, then adding ports as usage data comes in.

    Who this is for in Winter Garden

    Horizons West and Winter Garden Village newer multifamily. The corridor running from Daniels Road through Hamlin and out to the Winter Garden Village area is where most of the recent apartment construction landed. These communities lease to households that already own EVs or expect to. In a 2024 SWTCH Energy survey of 1,567 multifamily residents, 62% said they plan to own or drive an EV within five years when charging is available at their property, against 25% when it is not, and 31% of non-EV owners cited the lack of building charging as a barrier. A newer Winter Garden property competing against three others within a mile has a straightforward reason to be the one with charging.

    Townhome HOA communities. Winter Garden has a lot of townhome and alley-loaded product where residents park in shared surface lots or detached garages rather than an attached driveway. That is exactly the configuration where a homeowner cannot simply run a circuit from their own panel, and where a shared common-area installation makes more sense than six one-off requests. Note that Chapter 720, which governs HOAs, does not contain the EV charger provisions found in Chapter 718 for condominiums, so an HOA board's authority here runs through its own declaration and architectural guidelines.

    Condominium associations. For condo boards, Fla. Stat. 718.113(8) says the board may not unreasonably deny a unit owner's written request to install a charger in the owner's designated space, and Fla. Stat. 718.113(9) says board installation on the common elements is not a material alteration, so it generally does not require a full membership vote. Neither applies to an HOA or a rental apartment community. Many declarations carry their own material-alteration provisions, so confirm with association counsel.

    Historic downtown properties. Plant Street and the surrounding blocks bring a different problem set: small surface lots, shared metering, older service on some buildings, and visitors arriving by car from across Central Florida for the West Orange Trail and the Saturday market. For a downtown restaurant, office, or boutique lodging property, two well-placed ports listed on the Tesla app work as a reason to drive to Winter Garden rather than as a revenue line.

    Your utility and what it pays for

    Winter Garden properties are served by Duke Energy Florida.

    The Duke Energy Florida Commercial Charger Prep Credit is active. It covers wiring, panel, and conduit work, and it explicitly excludes hardware and permits. Any proposal that shows the Duke credit paying for the chargers themselves has it wrong. Florida Chargers confirms current program terms with Duke at the time of the proposal rather than quoting a figure that may have moved.

    Florida SB 1084 (2024) preempted EV-charger regulation to the state of Florida. No city or county in Florida can impose its own EV charging mandate, and there are no municipal rebate programs. That is a good thing for a board or an owner: a property installs charging because the amenity economics work, not because a local ordinance forced the decision.

    Permitting and timeline

    Electrical permits for properties inside the city limits are issued by the City of Winter Garden. Properties on the unincorporated fringe, including parts of the Horizons West area, permit through Orange County instead. Confirming the jurisdiction is part of the design step, not something to discover mid-project.

    A typical project runs 6 to 12 weeks from signed agreement to energized chargers. That window covers design, permitting, utility coordination, installation, and commissioning. Florida Chargers pulls the electrical permit under FL Certified Electrical Contractor license EC13009718.

    What it costs

    Installed cost runs $5,000 to $8,000 per port before incentives. The spread comes from trenching distance to the panel, available panel capacity, wall-mounted versus pedestal placement, port count, and whether the path is concrete or landscaping.

    Newer Winter Garden construction tends to land in the lower half of that range. Shorter conduit runs, spare breaker positions, and concrete paths that were poured with future utility work in mind all cut labor.

    Under the Share the revenue program, Florida Chargers co-invests and owns and operates the chargers. The property pays little to nothing upfront and earns a recurring share of the charging revenue. Financing is also available for qualified properties to lease the electrical infrastructure and installation with no money down. Exact economics are confirmed during the free site assessment.

    To model the numbers for a specific property, use the EV charging ROI calculator.

    Winter Garden EV charging questions

    It shortens the loop. The office is at 830 Easley Ave, so a site assessment, a punch-list item, or a maintenance visit does not involve a subcontractor driving in from another market. Florida Chargers still designs, installs, manages, and maintains the system the same way it does statewide, with the same 6 to 12 week window from signed agreement to energized chargers.

    Duke Energy Florida serves Winter Garden. The Duke Energy Florida Commercial Charger Prep Credit is active and covers wiring, panel, and conduit work. It explicitly excludes hardware and permits. Florida Chargers confirms the current program terms directly with Duke as part of the proposal.

    Yes, and in alley-loaded or shared-lot communities it is often the cleaner path. A shared common-area installation gives every resident access without six separate electrical scopes. Keep in mind that Chapter 720, which governs HOAs, does not contain the EV charger provisions that Chapter 718 provides for condominiums, so the board's authority comes from the declaration and architectural review guidelines. Confirm the specifics with association counsel.

    Usually. Buildings completed in the last decade were served with more capacity than older Central Florida stock, and load sharing across Tesla Universal Wall Connectors stretches that capacity across more ports. Florida Chargers reads the panel schedule and the meter data during the assessment and states plainly whether the site supports the requested port count.

    For a Plant Street business, the value is traffic rather than session revenue. Chargers list on the Tesla app, which routes drivers already looking for charging to the property, and the West Orange Trail and downtown events already draw visitors from across Central Florida. Two ports is a normal starting scope for a small surface lot.

    Installed cost runs $5,000 to $8,000 per port before incentives, and newer Winter Garden construction tends to sit in the lower half of that range because of shorter trench runs and available panel capacity. Under the Share the revenue program, Florida Chargers co-invests and owns and operates the chargers, the property pays little to nothing upfront, and it earns a recurring share of charging revenue. Financing is also available for qualified properties with no money down.

    This is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Consult a licensed Florida attorney for guidance specific to your association.

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    Florida Chargers walks the parking, checks the panel, confirms the serving utility, and returns a board-ready proposal. Veteran-owned, FL Certified Electrical Contractor EC13009718. Call 321-467-2099 or email info@flchargers.com.

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