David,
Everyone always mentions 8 hours of charging overnight, but most commute
cars sit much longer in the garage than that on normal weekdays, my EV
has about 15 hours of charging time if I let it stay plugged from the
moment I get home till I leave the next morning. So, even at the 12A rate
from my 120V outlet (my garage outlets are on a 20A breaker in the service
panel, but the outlets are 15A type and I am using a power strip as a
short extension cord with on/off switch to disconnect power before
unplugging) I am getting about 1.5kW max power so with 80% efficient
charging this is 1.2kW into the battery pack for 15 hours is 18kWh
which covers all that I can drive with the truck. And since I can also
plug in at work, I can drive even more in a day if I want to.
All from charging at level 1 which is more than 99% of my charging
till date - until I get time to install my JuiceBox. Or more accurately,
to install the 240V plug for my JuiceBox.

Cor van de Water
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From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Buying An Electric Car: Why Charging Rate,DC 
Quick-Charging Matter

On 20 Oct 2015 at 19:34, Mike Nickerson via EV wrote:

>  I've seen 20A circuits, but only in commercial installations. 

You'll see plenty of 20a branch circuits in homes - all newer homes are wired 
this way - but 20a receptacles on them are indeed pretty rare.  

This is because the code has an exception allowing cheaper 15a-rated 
receptacles on a 20a branch circuit, as long as there's more than one outlet on 
the circuit.  If there's only one receptacle on the circuit, it must be a 
20a-rated recept.  (Code experts argue over whether a duplex receptacle counts 
as one or two outlets.)

IIRC, the code ALLOWS but doesn't REQUIRE 20a-rated receptacles on a 
multiple-receptacle 20a branch circuit.  I installed 120v 20a recepts on the 
branch circuit in my garage to allow for better EV charging, though I'm not 
100% convinced that (once you're beyond the 50 cent bargain bin junk
receptacles) there's much difference between the guts of a 15a-rated recept and 
those of a 20-a rated recept.

One more note about this.  Because code limits sustained load on a branch 
circuit to 80% of its maximum, you can charge at no more than 1920 Watts from a 
120v 20a residential branch circuit.  If your EV gets 250 Wh/mi and has a 
typical 80% charging efficiency, you gain just over 6 miles of range per hour 
of charging.  If you sleep 8 hours and charge while you sleep, that's 48 miles 
you can drive per day.

It could be more than that, since some switchmode chargers do better than 80% 
efficiency.  Also, staying below 80% SOC increases battery charging efficiency. 
 But that's a pretty good rule of thumb.

You're much better off going with a 240v circuit and charger.  A 240v 20a 
circuit gives you 3840 Watts, for over 12 miles of range per hour of charging - 
96 miles overnight.

A 50a range / welder circuit is an even better bet, as long as your charger has 
the guts to use it.  That recept allows 9.6kW charging.  At that rate the EV 
described above gains over 30 miles of range for each hour of charging - about 
245 miles overnight.

David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
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