I actually learned about it from Bosch Power Max becomes cheapest Level 2 home EV charger at just $450, then saw more details from My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - Bosch Introduces <$450 L2 EVSE and found that someone else here at Home Depot Special: Free Level 2 installation kit /w/ purchase | PriusChat beat me to it by 2 days. Anyhow, I think this is worthy EV/PHEV news. For anyone who wants to install a "charging station" at home and doesn't want to send their L1 EVSE for an upgrade or wants to be able to charge at 30 amps @ 240 volts, this price is finally something more reasonable.
That puts the Leviton price to shame. I got the 16A L2 installed for $1200, including permits. It also comes with a 10 yr warranty due to having Leviton do the installation. I think the 30A was the same price, but not too sure. It was overkill for the PIP though. Definitely good to see Bosch stepping up and hopefully, starting a price war on these.
Finally... someone blinked These things should sell for $199.99 all day long- and hopefully will soon. Remember how expensive the first IDE smart drives were, then the first SATA drives, Blu-Ray players, etc....
Nice to read up on this, as I always wondered who decides what in an EV charging cycle (how much current, delayed start, etc.) But reading this I fail to see what is sophisticated about it and and thus why it should cost this much. Although this says it all I guess: If you don't blink when asking 150$ for an extra 7ft of cable, then you probably have healthy profit margins anyway.
Yes, but all those things are relatively small and have major components based on chips (which drop in cost due to Moore's Law). They all also sell in the millions of units during the first year with the expectations (for some at least) in the tens to hundreds of millions within a couple of years. If you know the total market is going to be selling hundreds of millions you can forgo large margins the first couple of years in order to establish a large market share. With EVSE equipment the volumes are about 1000x smaller. I still agree that these things should be much cheaper...but they are nothing like disk drives and Blu-ray players. Mike
Someone on Tesla Motors Club noted that they might be re-badged units from Welcome to Delta Electronics, Inc. - EV Charging Solutions. I know of them for fans and power supplies to big name (computer) OEMs but that's about it.
Just missed out on >100m of 8Ga single conductor multistrand cable. It went for 50$ but I wasn't paying attention. I could have stripped it and got twice that from the old scrap dealer... (and I have to wire up 2000W of solarpanels over some 30-40m, would have been perfect for that!) [/offtopic]
Not the same thing. Have you priced heavy flexible copper wire recently? Better put your Depends on before you do. .
