I have been charging my car at home. It is 110 electric line. My parking garage at work just installed the 220 charging stations. Is there a setting I should be concerned about? Do I need to switch a setting someplace each time I charge my car (to 220 when I arrive at the garage and back again to 110 when I get home)? Or does this auto detect it?
Everything is auto-magic. When you charge with 220V, your car will be ready to go in just over 2 hours...When you charge with 110V, your car will be ready to go in 5-6 hours. Nothing else to worry about at your end.
I am so happy to hear that! I thought that when I first got my car and was exploring it, that there was a setting in there someplace to switch between 100v and 220v. Today, I was thinking I was going to drive myself nuts trying to remember to switch it back and forth each day. Super happy to know I do not have to do that and the car will just do its thing accordingly.
Actually, the plug in nozzle is not the charging station. The charger is built into your car, and you are merely plugging into your cars' charger. The car charger is smart, & it knows what level of power it is getting. So you don't have to do a thing except to make sure your timer is not set to charge at the different time than you are plugged in. .
there is a setting for low amperage charging on 120v, 8 v 12 amps, iirc. the 8 amps is for people who don't have a dedicated circuit etc. and helps keep the breaker from tripping.
Good point. I am pondering what I should be doing to set it. I like the scheduled events because I can set it to be done charging at 7 am and it supposedly also preconditions it to the last heat settings (I am still out to lunch about whether it actually does that or not). But when I get to the parking garage, I am going to want to "charge it now." I guess I will have to either remember to change it to charge now when I plug in there. If I were to schedule a charge at 8:00 am and was running late and did not plug in until 8:05, would it begin charging (or not, since I would have missed the scheduled time)? That must be what I was thinking of. Thanks.
To add to what hill already said, any charging station that can physically plug into your car is OK. The handle/connection is made following the J1772 standard and is designed around the concept of standardization of compatible devices just like a 120v wall plug, USB, or even a firehose. If you have a device with a 120v plug, it will work in any 120v receptacle (with circuit breakers for safety). Charge stations with different handles that could potentially harm your Prime (superchargers, DCFC, chademo) can't because there's no way for them to connect to the car. hope this helps
But there is an option for you to set how fast you can charge your car on 220v. It’s under settings charging, max amp, 8amp, 4amp, or so.
