I used a 120v charger…once, then gave up. It really depends on your pattern of driving (how many miles per day) and charging (how often you want to plug in).
A 120v charger will give about 1.4kW power (12A) so you would end up with around 2-4 miles of range per hour of charging. So if you don’t drive much and are also willing to plug in every day. It might work. But it could be multiple days to get a full charge if you let it run down (at that point, probably better off going to a DC charger). We have a Chargepoint Home Flex (48A, 11kW) at home and have been happy with it. Installed outside. I plug in once or twice a week. Andy On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:02 AM Tim Mangini <[email protected]> wrote: > Sara, > > > > We have a 40amp Juice Box charger and it has served us extremely well. Got > the appropriate discounts. The only thing we didn’t like was the large > bright status light that is on all the time. (We solved it with some black > electrical tape.) With some chargers (like Juicebox) you can get additional > discounts if you sign up with your electricity providers’ energy demand > program where you agree they can throttle your charging during peak demand. > We have Eversource and it has never affected us. That saved over $300 if I > recall. > > To the Louis Zipes’ question, we worked off of a 120 v charger for 4 > months and never wanted for a charge, but we didn’t have too many big trips > during that time. > > > > — > > tim > > > > From: Sara R <[email protected]> > > To: Lincoln listserv <[email protected]> > > Subject: [LincolnTalk] Car battery charger suggestions for an electric > > car (not a Tesla) > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > Hello- > > > > We have just purchased an electric car and our electrician suggested we > ask the Lincoln listserv what 40 amp chargers people have recently had > success with. He likes the juice box brand but suggested we just see if > folks have new brands of chargers they like. > > > > Thanks so much! > > Sara Brown > > > > > > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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