A guide for people who keep their car in a rented garage or garage box: how to get the owner to say “yes”, what the consent must say, who pays for what — and what happens to the equipment when you move out.
Translated from Serbian. Prices, quotes from company websites and data are given in English for convenience; where the exact wording matters, the Serbian original applies.
Short answer: a rented garage is the simplest case — no residents' assembly, no vote, just one person who has to say “yes”. The owner says it once they know three things: that they will not be paying for your electricity, that nobody will put their garage at risk, and what happens to the equipment when you move out. All three are settled with one sheet of paper and one meter.
Hardly anyone says “no” to you because they dislike electric cars. They say “no” because they do not know the answer to one of these three questions — so settle them before the owner asks.
In a rented garage the electricity almost always goes through the owner's meter. The answer that works: a separate certified MID meter sits on the charger circuit, once a month the owner receives a statement with the reading and the amount at the price on their bill, with no markup, and the reimbursement is paid together with the rent. Without a meter, every arrangement falls apart at the first winter bill. What the billing looks like in practice.
A justified fear if charging goes through an ordinary Schuko socket: at 16 A it heats up to ~100 °C within half an hour of continuous use. The answer: a dedicated circuit, type A RCD protection with DC detection, a circuit breaker, installation by a licensed electrician and a test certificate handed to the owner. That is not “a slightly better socket” — it is an installation done to code, with the paperwork to prove it. What exactly it must include.
The equipment is yours: you can take it with you (restoring the space to its original condition), leave it by agreement or hand it over to the next tenant. For the owner, the third option is usually the most attractive — a space with a charger is easier to let to electric car drivers, and there are more of them every year. And it does not damage the wiring: the connection capacity is checked before installation, and a wallbox with dynamic load management does not trip the breakers.
Fill in the square brackets and attach the technical specification. The text is indicative — it serves as an addendum to the lease agreement; with our packages you receive a completed version after the assessment.
I, [full name], owner of garage / garage box no. [__] at the address [___], let to [tenant's full name] under a lease agreement dated [date], consent to the tenant setting up, at their own expense, an electric vehicle charging installation with a power of up to [__] kW, in accordance with the technical specification dated [date], which is attached to this consent, under the following conditions:
1. The work is carried out by an authorised contractor in accordance with the applicable regulations. On completion of the work, the tenant provides me with the test certificate (test report) for the installation.
2. The installation's consumption is measured by a separate MID-certified meter. The tenant reimburses me for the electricity consumed at the price on my supplier's bill, with no surcharge, on the basis of a monthly statement, [together with the rent / by day __ of each month at the latest, for the previous month].
3. The equipment remains the property of the tenant. When the lease ends, [the tenant removes the equipment and restores the installation to its original condition within __ days / the equipment stays in the garage against compensation of __ RSD / the terms will be agreed no later than 30 days before the lease ends].
4. The tenant maintains the installation at their own expense and is liable for any damage arising from its use.
In [place], on [date] · Owner: ______________ · Tenant: ______________
You take the kit with you. Removal, restoration to the original condition, installation at the new address. With a subscription, the company organises the move; without one — an electrician at the regular rate. You leave the kit behind. The owner buys the equipment at an agreed price or builds it into the next tenant's rent — for the owner it means a garage that is easier to let. You hand it over to the next tenant. Handover and switching the billing to the new user within 72h, with a subscription. In all three cases the equipment works with every electric car and plug-in hybrid (Type 2 standard): you change the car, not the kit.
Most older garages and garage boxes have a 16 A single-phase connection — and that is enough. The START package (a reinforced dedicated circuit, a 2,3–3,7 kW industrial socket, RCD protection, a MID meter) gives 100–180 km of range overnight, which covers a week of city driving. If the garage has three-phase power, a WALLBOX 11 kW is an option — a fully charged car in one night. If there is power but it is far from the space, the assessment shows the cable route and the price. If there is no power in the garage at all, the solution depends on the nearest connection point, and that is a matter for the assessment, not for a guide.
START from 59.000 RSD incl. VAT: circuit, socket, MID meter, test certificate and paperwork the owner signs without any fuss. Check what is possible in your garage in half a minute.
If the cable to the garage passes through common parts of the building (a shared distribution board, the garage corridor, a common wall), authorisation from the residents' assembly is also needed — the owner requests it as the owner of a separate unit, and you give them the paperwork ready-made. If the garage has its own connection and the cable stays inside it, the owner's consent is enough. How the procedure with the residents' assembly works.
No. An installation on someone else's property without consent is a problem that comes to light with the first larger bill or when you move out, and then you lose both the equipment and the lease. The consent is one page of text; owners sign it once they see the meter and the test certificate.
It is reasonable if it is tied to a specific obligation — restoring the original condition when you move out — and if it is returned once the obligation is fulfilled. Write it into the consent: amount, condition, deadline.
No. The consent is an addendum to the lease agreement between you and the owner; keep a copy together with the lease, the test certificate and the monthly statements. That is all the “paperwork” there is.
Nothing — the socket and the wallbox work with every electric car and plug-in hybrid using the Type 2 standard. You change the car, not the kit.
Realistically 1–2 weeks: an assessment within 48h, the owner's consent, installation in one day, the test certificate. If a decision by the building's residents' assembly is also needed, allow 4–10 weeks.
After the assessment you receive a technical specification and a completed consent form for the owner. Check what is possible in your garage — or write to us.
BlokVolt is an independent guide to electric cars in Serbia: companies, prices, procedures, regulations and figures — all with a source and a check date. The site is run by the team behind Evolako, which installs chargers itself; in comparisons it is marked as “our offer” and shown in the same columns as every other company.