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We couldnt afford the full jump to full BEV (we'd need to do a lot of electrical at home to make it worth it, plus car cost) so we went phev which is doable on a 120v charger.

Hopefully next car we can go full BEV for our second car.

Public chargers here are more expensive per km than gas, and we have small children. Time is at a premium and driving somewhere to just charge the car is not something I want to do. And my workplace has EV chargers in a paid parking lot with dedicated spaces and no EV spaces available either. So for us BEV was too impractical for the time being for the cost. So we went with a transition tech.

And yeah, if fossil fuel companies go away that's fine. I dont mind if the industry doesnt grow and is replaced with parallel energy industries based on greener tech. Meh.

 

Our yearly fuel consumption (with a 2010 Prius) likely rivals plug-in Prius, easy when you’re doing about 3k kms per year.

 

both threads getting a lot of play

 

surprised Tideland hasn't performed his magic merge yet
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Monitor the condition of the 120V socket. Had to replace mine after 17 years charging a golf cart. You can feel the heat in the cord of the charger. And I was only charging 3 nights a week.

 

Fair point. Its moreso that I'd need to run 240V, get potentially a new electrical board in the basement it comes from, etc. We're just gonna wait til we don't have 2 kids under 5 and out of daycare before we take on the extra expense (after windows get replaced on our house, and fix the fence). It's a bit of a lot all at once, and this is the compromise we made.

If we just need to replace a worn socket, that's so much simpler.

 

Why in the world more residential garages aren't plumbed with 20amp 120v receptacles will always be a mystery.

 

Was so plumbed. Didn't prevent a blackened socket and a burnt cord.

Only going to be here 2 years so elected to fix both and live with it. I play off site now, shorter and easier for this 81 year old. Just use the cart for around the development transport.

I wonder why the 240 sockets aren't going in new built garages. I don't see them though I do see a growing number of EVs. Local dealer still has some ex-rental Model 3s they ate trying to sell. Been 6-8 weeks and only half of them gone.

 

Sorry it's hard to relate. This picture of the better ½ & i .... checking out some of the new track home constructions in our area .... some 10+ years ago



Maybe your area is different?
Oh .... & pv solar is mandatory too.
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Not as much play as the dude known as @bisco who's about to hit 110K comments and 50K likes!!!

 

At my current house renovation, going rate to wire a 240V AC at even just 20amp (two standard Romex circuits) into garage 30 feet from breaker panel is $1K. I'm sure that means it comes with lots of bomb-proof accessories. For comparison, cost of running 100amps as 240v to a sub panel in the yard if I dig the trench for two RV plugins, eventually replaced with an ADU is $7K. Most other electricians have bid higher for this job. Crazy prices like this make me want to have credentials to run my own electrical.