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I can find used EVs that are like 20k right now, and pretty price comparable to their used ICE counterparts. You don't need 80k for an EV.
60k for home charging infrastructure? Your electrician is fucking you, get a different one.
Also, I charge from home, and my investment in home charging was 70 bucks for a cable, and I only paid that because the dealer forgot to get the charging cable from the previous owner.
My home is over 100 years old and still has active knob and tube wiring.
no electrician is going to touch a system with that shit in it.
my garage has a single 20 amp line to run everything. the lights, the chargers, the fans, my electric lawn mower. just using a plug-in drill is enough to trip the breaker. I would need to have a whole new line run to my garage.
so yeah, $60k is cheap when you take into consideration everything else.
Sounds like you need 60k to run a plug in drill, the cost of an EV charger is inconsequential compared to the overall problems with your house.
Also, if you can charge the lawn mower, then you can charge the EV. They literally use the same socket. EV chargers also de-rate to 80% of the maximum load for the socket you are using, so whether you believe it or not, an EV is easier on your crappy old wiring than that peaky drill is.
For a lot of people 20k is still an insane amount though. For me 20k for a car is a luxury
If you have a house, the charger is $1500. If you need to upgrade your electrical panel it can be a couple grand more. Not sure of your exact situation but 60k is pure hyperbole.
The charger isn't even $1500, that's over 15x the actual price.
https://www.amazon.com/Toptoo-EV-Charger-16A-Electricity/dp/B0FPG4492K
80 bucks right there, if you drive less than 40 miles a day, that will keep pretty much any EV topped off. If you do more than 40, you can get a 240 volt outlet for L2 put in your charging location, that actually can get a little pricey depending on your individual situation, but to run a 240 circuit out to my detached garage through the existing underground conduit would be like 600 bucks. L2 charging will charge all but the largest EVs from 0-100 overnight.
I meant that the L2 is $1500. Sure, the L1 is nothing, but it really isn't feasible for a full electric vehicle. (I have a large suv phev and 10 hours of L1 charge is like a gallon and a half of gas)
Also, I was referencing the price of the charger and installation in that first figure of $1500. There's also a 30% or up to $1,000 tax credit for US residents on it. I'm switching from phev to a smaller used EV in a couple months and getting the charger ahead of time before the tax credit expires in June.
L2 isn't 1500, that 80 dollar cord does L2.
Saying you need to charge for 10hrs to get the equivalent of a gallon of gas is really a ...weird... way to measure it. Are to talking 10 hours for the equivalent miles driven that a gallon of gas would provide, or are you talking 10 hours to accumulate the total energy from a gallon of gas?
Ah yeah, we're getting crossed up. I haven't seen an L2 charger that cheap and I was also including labor for installation.
You're right - I did phrase the measurement an odd way - that's because I've mostly described it to folks who are just familiar with ICEs. It's like 8-10 hours for an 18 kwh size battery. As you know, distance out of that is super dependent on speed/terrain. If I drive a combination of my most common scenarios, it provides roughly the equivalent of a gallon and a half of gas in terms of distance.