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Yeah it is. I ran my EV from an 8 amp charger for the first year. Charging for ten hours overnight adds about 100km of range. Most people don't do many kilometres per day.
You only really have trouble if you're doing back to back long trips, or if you haven't charged for a couple of days and suddenly find out you have a long trip to do the next day.
8 amp? Normal wall power point is 10 amp.
The early Tesla mobile chargers only did 8A from a 10A socket, something about a 20% derating. They don’t do that anymore thankfully.
That charger advertises 8 amps to the car, so that's what the car draws. I'm not sure why. A safety margin for bad wiring and dodgy outlets, maybe?
Yeah , 10 amp outlets aren't really good for 10 amps for 10 hours. Especially as they age.
I charged my EV for a few months with its trickle charger and it drew 10 amps. I just made sure to plug/unplug the charger from the outlet every day to ensure the contacts were wiped clean, and I checked the plug a few times after 4 hours or so to make sure it wasn't getting hot (it wasn't).
But yeah, home charging overnight is fine for city use. Most EVs use about 170Wh per kilometer driven, so 2400 watts per hour from your charger gives you about 12-15km of range every hour. If your daily commute is under 100km it's fine.
I've got a 7kW single phase charger now, it charges my EV from dead flat to 100 percent in less than 10 hours.