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Timely: I sit here waiting for an electrician to turn up to install power on our 50 acre property 3 hours north of Toronto. We have a 14-30 outlet in our house
by verelo 5y ago
Timely: I sit here waiting for an electrician to turn up to install power on our 50 acre property 3 hours north of Toronto. We have a 14-30 outlet in our house in the city, we use that to get around 35-40km/hr of charge in our driveway. That cost around $1500 (CAD) to install.
Up here, it's a different story. Our power comes in via the lake. It then goes to a transformer, it then goes to our metre which has a 200amp breaker on it. From there, it currently goes into the house.
In a few hours, it'll split off at the meter and head up a 150m hill where we'll be installing a 100amp outdoor panel with a 14-50 outdoor outlet. In the winter we cannot drive down this hill, so we need to charge up the top. It's a lot of work to do this, total cost is going to be around 8-9k, but from my perspective, it's an infrastructure cost and no matter what this makes us less dependant on fossil fuels and more independent. Our nearest gas station is around 20 minutes away, so we often have concerns about forgetting to gas up and then maybe struggling to get back to the gas station. While it's never happened, i love being able to charge at home.