Buying a prime tomorrow

As for your charging. Talk with rob43 to get a rat tail that allows you to charge at 240v 12 amp using the stock charger. Mine works great off an dryer/rv plug in the garage.

You will love the prime btw. Can't say much about pricing.

 

Congrats on your new Prime !

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Yes, you can use your NEMA 14-50R to charge up your new Prime. You have several choices:

1) Buy a $49 adapter so that you can use your Toyota OE 120v EVSE at 240 volts.

2) Buy a ~$199 China built EVSE from Ebay that has a 14-50P.

3) Buy a ~$420 US built EVSE like ClipperCreek that has a 14-50P.


Rob43

 

You could run a Juice Box 40 off that outlet.

 

How much does that unit cost ?


Rob43

 

I paid $299.00 though a Costco deal on a 2nd Juice Box with wifi.

 

? I just went to Costco, looks like ~$550 ?


Rob43

 

Looking at the past Earth day deals for Costco members and i can't find the old deal. Right now that have only $50 off. I also used my Costco credits for the year so my cost was a bit over $250. I think i put the cost in a thread here.....

 

congrats!
check the prime pricing thread.

what's the msrp? is 28 the price after rebates and discounts, before tax, title, license?

 

At 220v it should be a 2 hour 10 min charge. Worst you'll do (110v) is 5 hours 50 minutes.

 

The voltage available from our service is 245 volts. That shaves 20 to 25 minutes off of a full charge. 1h 45m is how long my most recent overnight took with that.

 

Good question.

When using your Toyota OE EVSE unit at 120 volts, your charge up time from 0% will be about 5 1/2 hours.

When using one of my Rob43 10 AWG Pure Copper adapters with your OE EVSE unit at 240 volts, your charge up time from 0% will be about 2 1/2 hours.


Rob43

 

This statement is a bit vague, "Does it matter that the plug is outside?", could you be more specific ?

Car suspensions. I have a friend in Iowa that specializes in motorcycles suspensions.

Take a quick look at my thread, Using The Primes 120v Charger at 240 Volts.



Rob43

 

While we have you here, Go read the manual on Customization and make your choices.
Before you buy, the salesman will agree to do them for free. After you are an owner, you deal with the Service Department and some insist on charging the customer.

https://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om-s/OM47C77U/pdf/OM47C77U.pdf starts on page 741, try to think through you situation now while it is free.

I park indoors so I want the headlights to go off after 0 seconds, you may want 90 seconds to get back to the house from the outlet.
I want one beep in reverse, you may want it to beep as long as you are in reverse.
I want one click of the fob to unlock all locks, you may want the first click to only unlock the driver's door. Similarly, if you grab a door handle, do you want them all to unlock or only your door?

Customization and Initialization goes on to page 752, lots of ways to make the car all yours.

 

I can't tell if it still has that Clear closing top, as long as it's "reasonably" rain proof you're good to go.

My actual charge handle is mounted on the outside of my garage, it never sees rain because of the roof overhang.


Rob43

 

My JuiceBox L2 gives me 1h55m to full, 2h8m in the winter. Short time due to our voltage here seems to be 125v most of the time, so 250v at 16 amp (the Prime's max due to it's 3.3kW onboard charger). If you need to charge at home twice in a day, that might make sense.

But... the 240v hack mentioned above at the car's software max (12A) using the supplied 120v charger should yield about ~2.5 hours. Not such a huge difference.

Probably the only reason to go full L2 240v 40A EVSE is to future-proof if you'll be getting a BEV car soon. Example: the Tesla Model 3 can take up to 240v 32A (base or SR+) on home AC based EVSE's.