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  • ikt@aussie.zonetoElectric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•How the US got left behind in the global electric car raceEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You’re close but slightly off

    Level 1 and 2 charging is for your home, there’s level 1 granny charger which is basically a regular power point into an adapter (like a laptop charger) which gets around 2.2kw, level 2 requires a level 2 charger to be installed in your house (usually in the garage or driveway) which takes the charging speed up to 7kW (single-phase) and 22kW (three-phase) but I believe most American homes are single phase.

    Then you go into proper EV fast chargers (level 3) that are outside:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Supercharger

    This is where you get your <20 minute charges

    If you’re charging at home generally it’s overnight while you’re asleep or during the day from solar when you don’t need to drive (like on the weekend) or if you do need to drive you take it out and come back and plug it in so there’s no real issue there.

  • ikt@aussie.zonetoElectric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•How the US got left behind in the global electric car raceEnglish
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    4 days ago

    charging an electric car for hours

    How I know you don’t have an EV :P

    EV’s aren’t petrol cars so you don’t run them down to 1% battery life and then charge them up from 1% to 100%

    Modern EV’s charge fairly quickly:

    10% to 80% charge in approx. 18 min

    https://www.hyundai.com/au/en/cars/eco/ioniq5

    Maybe you plug in at 40% so that’s a 10 minute charge.

    We’re also seeing more and more EV chargers in shopping centre car parks, so in a few places you can park, plug in, do your shopping, and come out to a car full of beans.

    And the added competition for AI data centers on electrical grids are also going to decentivise people from buying electric cars and paying higher energy prices to charge their car.

    Isn’t this a greater incentive for solar? Do you not get paid for exporting power to the grid?