This is what “the future” looks like when governments, green lobbyists and EV true believers get together with your wallet.At Sierra in Hawthorn, Melbourne, taxpayers helped fund a $1.5 million EV charging retrofit for an upscale apartment complex. The headline sounds impressive. The reality? A ceiling full of ordinary power points, a load-management system, and a setup that can only trickle charge a limited number of EVs at a time in rotating 10-minute intervals when demand is high.In other words: not proper charging infrastructure. More like a taxpayer-funded rationing system for rich apartment owners.In this report, I break down:• what was actually installed• why Level 1 charging is glacially slow• why this kind of system is no substitute for real infrastructure• what it says about the fantasy of large-scale apartment EV charging• and why the emissions argument is a lot shakier than the activists pretendBecause when you strip away the press releases, the ministerial spin and the EV-suck media coverage, this looks a lot less like progress and a lot more like greenwashed theatre.If you like facts, engineering, and calling out public-policy idiocy when you see it, you’re in the right place.