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This is not true. Rule of thumb is 4-5mi per hour on 120AC. I drive a Leaf and charge exclusively at home on 120AC, zero problems keeping up with my non-bicycle
by mwint 4y ago
This is not true. Rule of thumb is 4-5mi per hour on 120AC. I drive a Leaf and charge exclusively at home on 120AC, zero problems keeping up with my non-bicycle-friendly commute.
If I needed to I could put in a 220 charger for a couple hundred bucks and a few hours of time, but I just don’t.
- Fatnino 4y agoIt is true, and your rule of thumb backs it up. The chevy bolt has a range of ~260 miles. Divide by 4mi per hour charging and get ~60 hours of charging. I'll allow that my bit about the bike was slightly hyperbolic.
- wffurr 4y agoI was a little taken aback first time I charged my Bolt up with the 120V charger on an standard outdoor outlet. The time estimate said “9 AM” but I didn’t notice that it meant 9 AM two days from now. I still only use the 120V outdoor outlet charger, since my usage is infrequent and adequately served by the 0.9 kW/hr charging, but it helps to know that a full charge does take something like 55 hours. On the (hasn’t happened yet) occasion that I need more range than that, there’s a variety of level 2 and 3 chargers easily accessible in the area.
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoAverage commute is 40 mile round trip so 10 hours of charging. A top up fast(-ish) charge then becomes something you need to do about as often as visiting a gas station in an ICE. EVs generally shouldn't be run to 0 or charged to 100%, so this works out well if you have a suitable parking spot.
- Fatnino 4y agoBut that one fast charge takes 40 minutes, not the 5 minutes at a gas station. It's totally workable, you can uausaly find something to do during that time, but I maintain that we are still one or two charging tech generations behind parity with gasoline.