I currently charge my Volt at home every night.
My question is the efficiency of charging at home. At home I plug into an old outlet that already gets slightly warm at 8A so I don’t want to try 12A.
The landlord where we rent said if we pay to install EV charger he will deduct it off the rent.
Initially I wanted to wait for the new Tesla Universal charger to come out and have that professionally installed. But I’m thinking to keep it simple, why not just have an electrician run a new circuit and put in a nema 14-50 outlet. Then use an 14-50 to 6-20 adapter off Amazon to use my Schumacher SC1455 in level 2 mode.
The reason that would be fine is my Volt can only charge at 3.3Kw anyway. So why spend big bucks on a more capable hardwired level 2 charger for ~$600 that’s going to be wasted.
My question is how much more efficient would it be on our power bill to charge it through the level 2 (240v) vs level 1 (120v 8a) like I do now? As I understand there is overhead and the overhead is basically fixed. Which is why 12a mode even at level 1 is almost double the speed of 8a charging?
Thanks.
My question is the efficiency of charging at home. At home I plug into an old outlet that already gets slightly warm at 8A so I don’t want to try 12A.
The landlord where we rent said if we pay to install EV charger he will deduct it off the rent.
Initially I wanted to wait for the new Tesla Universal charger to come out and have that professionally installed. But I’m thinking to keep it simple, why not just have an electrician run a new circuit and put in a nema 14-50 outlet. Then use an 14-50 to 6-20 adapter off Amazon to use my Schumacher SC1455 in level 2 mode.
The reason that would be fine is my Volt can only charge at 3.3Kw anyway. So why spend big bucks on a more capable hardwired level 2 charger for ~$600 that’s going to be wasted.
My question is how much more efficient would it be on our power bill to charge it through the level 2 (240v) vs level 1 (120v 8a) like I do now? As I understand there is overhead and the overhead is basically fixed. Which is why 12a mode even at level 1 is almost double the speed of 8a charging?
Thanks.
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