Standard Prius Prime Charger (G9060-47130) supporting 240V

I'm pretty sure it's dual voltage. Just look at what's printed on the power brick, it'll say what it can handle. (120V/240V)

 

I am not understanding how you could plug a 110v device into a 240v outlet.

 

welcome!

you are fortunate that it didn't blow up. they must have some kind of overload protection in it.

reminds me of when my wife and i were first married. i converted my 120v table saw to 240v by switching a wire in the motor, ran a new wire and circuit breaker, and told myself i would change the plug (which i didn't have on hand) later.

one day, my wife goes down the basement, plugs in her philco tv and boom. no more tv. wasn't funny as i recall.

 

Most computers, cell phones are dual voltage. I’ve had stereos (purchased outside North America) that were dual voltage (actually from 100-240 volts, 50/60 Hz)

 

Then i don't think I'd trust it doing 240V! I'll have to look at mine when I get home...

 

there is a company that can convert the prime evse to 120/240, but it ain't cheap.

 

Won’t the bits in the car for charging be the same all over the world. It needs to handle 240v here in the UK. Will be cheaper to build one version a different plug top rather than engineer unique versions.


iPhone ?

 

maybe not, since you don't get an evse with yours. here, most people have 120v, and would have to install 240v outlet.

 

you may be right. i have heard it's $5.00 in parts to convert the toyota evse, so most of it must be 240 ready.

 

great price, where do you get them?

 

I am going to assume that the orange end is a standard 110v outlet with a 240 volt only warning on it. What could possibly go wrong here?

 

@jerrymildred can verify but I suspect those cables are very illegal too due to the potential safety issues.
There is a reason connectors like that are designed to be incompatible.

 

A lot of equipment is dual voltage, so an adaptor cable isn't necessarily a bad thing. But if a device is dual voltage like my phone charger, it will normally say so because that's a nice feature and worth bragging about. The standard North American EVSE for my PiP says "Input 110V-120V." I would assume the Prime is the same. So, if all the Toyota EVSE needed in order to work on 240V was an adapter plug, then those guys who are "converting" them for over $200 would be big time frauds.


Anyone who wants to try to run their unmodified North American Toyota EVSE on 240V is welcome to risk the expense. Please post pictures and total repair cost.

 

post 1 says no damage.

 

True, but it might be more accurate to add, "so far." There are also medical expenses. Just because I crossed the street and forgot to look both ways and didn't get hurt doesn't mean that it's safe. The EVSE has one hot leg and one neutral leg. If you plug it into 240V you just made that neutral leg hot. Since the EVSE has a plastic case, it's probably OK, but I wouldn't want a hot neutral. They can really hurt as I know from personal experience.

The Prime owner's manual says "Connect to an AC 120 V outlet," for a reason. If it was made for 240V, don't you think they would brag that up? I sure would. The most important part of the conversion, I think, is getting that formerly neutral side of the internal circuit isolated.