EV Charging station & RV use
It seems that electric vehicles have a couple standards for charging stations but the ones that are free (like Volta) likely have a J1772 plug. It'd be great to just get 30A out of it. Anyone seen any...
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pianotuna wrote:
JaxDad,
When folks come home in cold weather the last thing they do is plug in the block heater. Since our society refused to adapt from 9 to 5 jobs--there is a tremendous load. But the grid seems to not fall over very often.
A typical block heater on a commuter-mobile is ~350 Watts.
My Tesla on a slower charge setting is 11.5 kW.
So 1 Tesla draws more than 32 block heaters.
As in the case of my business partner who lives in a condo with more than 500 suites in it, the underground never drops below freezing so I suspect there’s very few block heaters plugged in. If only half of them had an EV that charged at just 5 kW that would be a 2,500 kW load that the building, nor the lines running to it, were designed for.
IKEA has candles on sale this week BTW.
