Charging Survey - EV owners only

In the last year, how has charging your EV been?

  • Easy!. At home and commercial chargers - I didn't have any range anxiety or issues. Keeping my EV!

    Votes: 5 100.0%

  • Some problems with load-shedding, but otherwise never stranded. Keeping my EV!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Difficult to charge, had to switch to ICE car or Uber a few times. EV wasn't the best choice.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Almost impossible to properly charge, too expensive, wanna sell my EV.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    5
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I'm not looking for general opinion here please, but ACTUAL answers from the few of you on the forum driving actual EVs (not PHEV)

As an EV owner, how has it been charging your car.
Any comments on cost also welcome and perhaps if you don't mind replying with which EV you have :)
 
Wow, I hold you to a very high standard but I am disappointed by this blatant display of discrimination coming from you.
 
Lol the reason i there's a lot of opinion out there. I have mine too. I'm looking through for actual answers from people who own them.
 
I had range anxiety once.
Got home with 3 miles left on the display...
 
I maintain charging your EV at home is not the way to go.
The charger that comes with a Tesla Model 3, for example, needs it's own 30-amp outlet. @230v, that's 7.6kW.

Sure, you can baboon-tune it to work on a standard 16-amp wall socket, if you are OK with it taking 14-hours to charge. And that's the entry-level Model 3.
 
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LCBXX said:
I maintain charging your EV at home is not the way to go.
The charger that comes with a Tesla Model 3, for example, needs it's own 50-amp outlet. @230v, that's 11kW.
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Eh?

The Teslas come with a granny charger which will run off a normal 15 amp plug - but this is a bit slow - only 3kw or so.
My home charger is a single phase 8KW charger - runs off a 40 amp breaker but pulls around 32A
Other AC chargers for up to 11KW are three-phase models, 3x20 amp.
 
Sinbad said:
Eh?

The Teslas come with a granny charger which will run off a normal 15 amp plug - but this is a bit slow - only 3kw or so.
My home charger is a single phase 8KW charger - runs off a 40 amp breaker but pulls around 32A
Other AC chargers for up to 11KW are three-phase models, 3x20 amp.
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If you have the cash to flex with an EV today, home-charging is hardly an issue.

If EVs are to become mainstream and replace petrol/diesel cars, public charging is the way to go.
 
LCBXX said:
If you have the cash to flex with an EV today, home-charging is hardly an issue.

If EVs are to become mainstream and replace petrol/diesel cars, public charging is the way to go.
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Why?
Public charging is only necessary if you drive more than your car's range in a day, or you have no access to a home charger (lots of places in the UK have this issue - no driveways/offstreet parking so people park in the street - you can't fit a charger there).

Home charging is significantly cheaper than public charging.

The speed of home charging is largely irrelevant for most daily commute cases - you plug in when you get home and you've got, what, 13 hours at least before you have to leave the next morning? Even at 3kw, that's nearly 40kwh of charge, which on a decent EV is good for 200km or more.

It's a mindset shift away from how you manage resources in an ICE car. You don't wait for the reserve light before you head to a petrol station - you start every day with a full tank, and only head for a public charger if you're going to empty the tank completely in a single day.
 
To answer this, I have 2 Gridcars points within 3KM of my house. Excluding any new ones to come up.

My plan is not to charge at home, but to fill her up at a super-charger when needed while shopping or at gym etc.

Worst-case if they're all down I'de plug it into the standard wall over a weekend, but yeah - i'm not thinking of home charging.

Also i only have a 12Kw Sunsynk inverter for the whole house, it aint gonna survive charging a car lol.
 
Now that you have a poll, what's your plan to get the 50 people across the country to answer it?
 
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