The vast majority of charging is done at home. A typical home charge station draws between 3 and 8 kw. Most charge units that come with the car are plugged into a dryer outlet. The average commuter charge is 6 to 8 kWh daily. And many of us charge at night. Our cars charge timers are set to 1 AM and it’s usually done by 2 unless we just came back from a road trip.
No one has a DC fast charger at home. They are usually in commercial locations. They provide a lot of current for a short period of time. Utilities will evolve to adapt to the load just like they did with air conditioning. It’s a 40 year transition.
This is what ours looks like. Came free with the car. We have a 100 amp panel in our townhouse. We had a stove plug installed in the garage. The charge unit runs at max 32 amps. It has served us well for over 4 years.
Good morning Nick. I believe they base it on the average commute. It may be different region to region. Around here it’s 35 to 45 kilometres per day…ish. Our car goes about 6 kilometres to a kilowatt plus or minus.
I’m sure there are those that have both longer and shorter commutes. Ours tends to be shorter. We tended to charge everyday when we were commuting to work so it’s easy to see on the app what the car sucks up. We are mostly retired now so less regular commuting.
Or we can just look at the hydro home app and one can see the difference between days we charge and days we don’t. We are probably closer to that 5 kWh number but our commute is pretty short now. typically our house uses about 14 kWh in a day. On days we charge after a commute that would be closer to 19 or 20.
Road trips we use superchargers or charge at campgrounds sometimes when we are towing which is a whole other topic.
Hope that helps.
Quick edit. You can see we charged last Thursday after a commute.
AAA automotive engineers found EV pickup trucks like the Ford 150 lightening have extreme poor range with a 1400 lb load in the bed. Range on one charge yields only 210 miles with a maximum no load range of 278 miles. This recent news and test published in Auto Guide.
My 2014 Dodge Ram 1500 V8 4x4 with same or heavier load gives me a range of at least 360 miles on one tank of gas. So there it is but those F 150 are sure pretty to look at like the Rivian trucks. Cheers.
My 2014 Ram
