Most houses have a 30 amp circuit for a dryer. On some days you may drive more, and you won’t be able recharge your EV fully, but as long as you don’t keep doing long drives days 3-4 days in a row, you will make it back home. So generally speaking, with this very slow charging, you can still survive. Most people will have their car at home for more than 8 hours a day. This means it will deliver around 60 kilometers in an 8-hour overnight charging time. The Level One charger (which comes with electric car) plugs into a dedicated standard house plug, and can charge EV at 12 amps/1.4 kW. The average car is driven only 50-80 km/day. #100 amp panel upgradeLater if you upgrade your electrical panel, you won’t need to rewire the circuit to get minimum charging time. Even if you decided to go for one of the cheaper options with slower charging, like the NEMA 6-20, you should better run a bigger cable to it, and later able to convert it 50 or 60 amp charger. Even if your EV requires a 32 amp outlet always price out getting bigger wire than you need, it may add a tiny amount to the price, but in future you may get a second car or different EV, which will need more amps. In case you have a 200 amps service, you can easily run a 60 or 50 amp circuit to the NEMA 14-50 plug or EV wall connector. In ON Energy now we getting a lot of EV charger installation requests from people who have a 100 amp service in their homes.
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