Is charging my Rivian and Tesla on a 120v household outlet realistic?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Are you thinking about buying an EV, or maybe you already have one and want to know if you actually could live off using a regular household outlet for your charging needs? Well in this video we explore the option of using a household outlet to soley charge my Tesla and Rivian. 🏡 🚗 🔌
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Anybody know what happened to Shannon?
She’s still posting daily on Twitter, but she’s not addressing the fact that she’s no longer posting on RUclips. As far as I can see, nobody is asking her about that either. Weird.
Shannon, if you are going to be in that house for a while you can install a couple Tesla V3 wall connectors in parallel that share that 14-50’s circuit ( 14-50 removed) Use a NACS (Tesla) to J1772 adaptor as needed. This way two cars can be charged at the same time, the wall connectors will split the available power. If you leave take the wall connectors.
Obviously the more efficient the EV the more practical 120 volt charging is. I managed to go 1 year/20,000 miles with only level 1 for a Niro EV before upgrading to a level 2. It can be done, but obviously level 2 is way more practical.
Single car couple with a ModelY. Charge at 120V (no choice, rental apartment, we were lucky they let us pay to put in an outlet and we got the last circuit on the garage's electric panel.
First, we get 5 mph.
Second, your EV will never be at 0% and you seldom need to leave with 100%. So realistically, we charge between 20 - 80%.
So that's 37.5 hours or 1.5 days.
We have never had to take the car to an L3 in order to have enough mileage to head out. Coming home from days-long road trips, we do stop in at a Supercharger 60 miles outside the city so we can arrive home with ~40% charge and be able to run errands the following day including running out to our son's place (a 100 mile round trip.)
We live in Canada and would say charging on 120V OUTSIDE is dodgy (our car is in a heated garage and gets the 5mph winter and summer.) Our range is much lower in winter temps (and not the temps you were complaining about) and so we keep the car at 85% in winter and we count on losing about 30% of our range in certain conditions, cold and snow in particular (and about 5% just because of the winter tires.)
We don't commute with the car. Or to the store very often because we are city dwellers who believe in lowering our carbon footprint as much as possible (that's why we live in an apartment instead of a house, and live in the city instead of the rural village we used to be in.) We try to live a 15 minute lifestyle but have the EV for everything that can't be done on foot or transit (such as visiting our grandkids since their parents had to move further out in order to afford homes.) We only drive about 1300 miles a month.
For us 120V is just fine.
When will you be doing the video? Missing them
Hey,... where'd you go?
A woman who has gotten by on looks alone who doesn't know what .75 means... Good luck when you hit 30... life goes extra hard mode at 40... GL bud
I’m sure the hills you have to adventure across are significantly higher than everyone else’s lol
You look great lovely Shannon. Leave a lot of happy tracks as you go down life's roads..........................be water my friend
My son just got his Rivian R1T, he won't get charger installed until next week. We hooked up the the Rivian to a 120v outlet, at first the green light came on the front and around the plug. The light stayed on for a short while and then it went out, there is power at the outlet.......is this normal because it charging at such a low rate? Thanks for sharing.
Hey! Congrats to your son for receiving his R1T! Usually the light on the front lightbar and around the plug go off once the vehicle locks. He should be able to verify it is still charging via the app.
Just an idea if the house supports it until his charger gets installed, is to see if he can plug in the mobile charger that he received with the truck to the dryer outlet. An adapter will be needed (probably a 14-50 to 10-30) but it will suffice until the level 2 gets in. Again, just an idea, maybe the dryer is too far away.
@@EVandChill Thanks for the reply. What I found is if you lock the Rivian the lights will go out, a lot to learn about EV's. Again, thanks for the reply.
I always enjoy your videos. Great information and lots of fun, wink wink!! Happy Holidays!! Cheers!!
Lol 😂 your jokes
I had a Tesla wall charger installed before I took delivery of my Tesla last fall. I was using it three times a week for my commute and daily weekend driving. Six months later my employee installed a dozen free Blink EV chargers. Now I charge for free and almost never use my home charger but I'm still really glad to have the fast charging option at home when needed. Also in a pinch I have ten Tesla superchargers about a mile from my home. EV charging has really come a long way the past few years.
Thanks for another great video, delving into real-world application and scenarios for an ever-changing gallery of EVs! It's reassuring to see other EV models returning charge rates very similar to ours across voltage/amperage levels. And both of your vehicles are looking very sharp, indeed!
(Good point about the calculator / flashlight / phone in your pocket. It's a great visual aid.)
We moved this past summer from a house designed for heat pump (with 200 amp service) to a bigger house designed for natural gas furnace (but only 100 amp electrical service.) We went from having 40amp Level 2 (yay!) down to 16amp Level 2 (meh!) But even with the 240v/16a shared between a '21 Mach-E and a '22 EV6 the charging is fine. It's just that 40 amp's 33 miles/hour we had before is a lot more fun than 13 miles/hour we're currently getting... But it's still better than Level 1's 3 miles/hour, yikes! After winter we'll have 200 amp (or higher) service trenched in under the yard.
Most of all, thank you so much for your advice when we were buying our EV6 a few weeks back! My wife absolutely 100% LOVES it! We're looking forward to your next outstanding video. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, stay warm!
Or give you enough juice to get to a fast charger.
Very informative 👏
Short answer: not really. Especially with 2 EVs. And even then, 240V charging stations can vary greatly. My previous Nissan LEAF could only swallow 16A, even though its EVSE was capable of 32A. Now my Model 3 and its HPWC function at a whopping 48A, which puts ~44 miles/hour into it battery. However, many EV owners get by just fine with a 120V granny charger because they only drive 30 miles per day… as much as they'd put in the battery overnight. The problem is… that doesn't leave much wiggle room for unplanned, spur-of-the-moment trips. Yes, invest in an EVSE, folks, if for nothing else than the peace of mind.