They sell them under 50k, if the dealers arenāt marking them up, Hootie. Thatās the trick right now.
As for you, you have a house. Pay someone to install a Level 2 fast charger in your houseā¦itās not super cheap but itāll pay for itself in terms of convenience, quickly. Youāll wake up every morning with a āfull tankā of juice. You donāt need to charge it anywhere else unless you are going on a long road trip.
That one is $294, plus installation (paying an electrician, so yeah, labor is pricey).
You can park it in a Wal Mart, etc to charge it up on a road trip. Probably random restaurants and Starbucks too. Grab a drink / snack, take a leak, itāll be mostly done. You have an app on your phone to setup payment for it. If you do a full sit down meal, you can probably do a full from <20% to 80-90% charge.
Pretty much thatās it. Itās not that hard in general but some of the chargers / apps are occasionally buggy. Go to the next āpumpā over.
Itās like gassing up your car but slower, which is why I would do it the same time as my driver breaks.
Yeah it does, IIRC. Itās like your washer / dryer. Thatās what youāre paying the electrician for - to run that line. Costs vary based on what you already have setup and where you wanna put it.
Also, there are a couple of brands of Fast Charging for your road trips. You canāt use Teslaās cause Elon said no. Each charger app will also be able to let you plan a trip / show you on a map where you can charge up. They also tell you if theyāre occupied, and what their max speeds are since there is some variety.
The way my house is built it would be a huge undertaking to get another 220 outlet in the garage, not really feasible. I would probably have to go outside and around. Not sure I would want to do that
Thatās what some people do though Hootie. I havenāt heard anyone complain about it being difficult, but I guess it could get costly. Best thing you can do is get an estimate. Canāt hurt.
My breaker box is in my garage, so I already had an electrician tell me it would be pretty easy and relatively cheap to do.
Also, just in case it isnāt clear, it doesnāt matter which kind of EV you get, the Level 2 charger will work on all of them. So you can have different ones, or swap out after a couple of years, etc. Itās pretty much a one time expense. I expect it to be a builder option in new homes in the future.
Iām with ya Hootie - I have two driveways. One lower with a garage and one in front. Garage has motorcycles hobby cars and ambulance. The charger would go there but all the cars and truck are in other driveway. If the bronco does a hybrid I might do that for wife.
Tesla superchargers are different from other fast chargers because way back in 2012-14ish, long range EVās did not exist. And therefore fast chargers didnāt exist, so Tesla literally invented them. Then when other chargers came along, instead of using Teslaās design, they incorporated the CCS ācomboā that allowed all these short range cars (bmw i3) etc to be able to fast charge. From the beginning, everyone really should have settled on a common cable/port, the way all gas pumps are the same.
Tesla is currently working on adding CCS adapters to their superchargers later this year so everyone can use them. That will be amazing, there are wayyyyy more Tesla superchargers than EVGO, EA, Chargepoint, etc fast chargers.
Btw, we have two EVās and have no special plugs or chargers. We plug both into a regular 110 outlet. The BMW i3 is fully juiced in the morning (it has a small battery), and the ID4 usually adds about 30-40 miles, which is fine with us, for now.
It can charge in either but 110 would literally take days. It will only add about 3 miles per hour.
Iām putting a 50 amp charger in my garage. Since itās new construction it doesnāt really add any cost except the charging box itself. That will add 33 miles an hour
Wow! Herbert Diess is ousted as CEO of VW. I knew there was a big rift between him and the board, but I thought his job was safe. This is a huge mistake and loss for VW, as he was one of the only legacy CEOās who was truly taking electrification and software seriously. Fun fact that few people know, Tesla and Elon recruited him heavily back in 2015 to be ceo of Tesla, and a deal was reached, but fell apart at the eleventh hour. It will be interesting to see where he ends up.
That does happen on the show. The owners have many different reasons for wanting electric. They typically do have a completely normal external look with āhiddenā electric propulsion.
This is set in the UK so the biggest reason for the owners seems to be environmental friendly reasons with a small subset that want increased performance.
If you like wheeler dealers you will like this show.
I am am ambivalent personally but I hear you on the soul of the vehicle.
Classic cars shouldnt be gutted unless there is basically nothing left of them. It drives me up the wall.
The only reason I would entertain a EV for the wife is just the lack of maintenance needs since my wife tends to ignore them anyway. To me that is the biggest selling point of the EVs before the green stuff or the performance.
Yeah the conversion route is definitely not going to be low maintenance. There is so much custom work in these conversions. It would be a fortune to maintain long term.
I do like the show though. It scratches my Wheeler Dealers itch while I wait for something new from Mike Brewer and Co.
There is actually a season 2 of Vintage Voltage that we cannot get yet in the states @*%#!