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FWIW I have owned a Tesla since 2017 and I charge at home from a standard wall outlet. Where I live most commutes are 25 miles a day, or almost an entire overn
by bearjaws 2y ago
FWIW I have owned a Tesla since 2017 and I charge at home from a standard wall outlet.
Where I live most commutes are 25 miles a day, or almost an entire overnight to charge. That is 7 hours of charging, per day if you drive a Model Y.
Regardless of your charging schedule, the power has to come from a local transformer and will be ADDITIONAL to the current load on the grid, you can wait 5 days but that just means more load for longer.
Transformers are typically 450kwh to 900kwh, and the power company matches capacity to demand.
This means adding another ~100kwh to your neighborhood in overnight charging not only adds to the power plant, but also all the infrastructure along the way, and most notably your transformer(s).
That is why I am curious about a deep dive, if we really want to go all electric, what all has to be upgraded? What is a reasonable schedule for a local utility and how much are we going to pay.
And then you add in the road trips and superchargers...