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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

While I agree that having a charging point at home is not mandatory, it's much much friendlier,

Even a normal outlet can handle slow charging an EV if you drive less than 100km a day.

Typical EV usage : 18kWh per 100km

Typical "granny" charger : 1800 watts (240v,7 amps)

10 hours at 1800 watts = 18kWh = 100km.

Get home at 6pm, plug in car, car is charged at 4am , leave for work at 7am. Enough spare time there to shift to charging outside peak evening usage at 9pm instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Here in the US typical outlets are 120v 15A max. Sure thats also 1800 watts but for a margin of safety, typically, appliances won't use anything over 1500 watts, or about twelve and a half amps.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's 12 amps even. It's the 80% rule for continuous draw, defined as expected use to run for 3 hours or more. That's why a space heater is 1500 watts, but a hairdryer is 1800.

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