New F-150 Electric P/U

wanderingaimlessly wrote:

Reisender wrote:

Redcatcher70 wrote:
Well, I didn't fill in all the info. We don't own any type of unit currently, maybe in the future. My daily driver is a F250 Super Duty, CC, V-10, 2WD. I am planning on downsizing in the near future. DW daily is a Buick Encore. We like to make trips in the truck, car is a little small. We make the Texas trip every two or three months, to see the grands. First question, when are all these charging stations going to be installed, who is paying for the stations, how much will a charge cost. We all know the power grids in Texas are about maxed out, how much is a home charger installed cost? I don't see a electric truck in my future.... Son does not have a charger at his home either, you think he might install one for me.

Howdy. I can only help with the last two questions re chargers at your home or your sons.

All EV’s come with built in level 2 chargers as well as the EVSE that connects to the homes power source. The expense comes in adding the stove plug (14-50 receptacle same as found in RV parks) in your sons or your garage. In our case it was 350 bucks. But every house is different. Depends a lot where your panel is. This typically allows for a full charge overnight.

Hope that helps.

Finish it out Reis,,,,,,

Or that level 2 charger that comes with the vehicle will charge you up, in somewhere between 2 and 9 days depending on how big your truck battery is.

No. Let’s assume a 150 kWh battery and then extrapolate from there depending on your expectation of battery size. Using the built in charger and supplied EVSE at a conservative 8 KW setting. Assuming you arrive with 20 percent (most people don’t run their “tanks” dry) you would expect to see a 17 hour charge using a standard stove plug and running it at a conservative 32 amps. If you wanted to spring for an aftermarket EVSE that supports 48 amps on a dedicated hardwire 60 amp circuit then you would be looking at 12 hours. But most of us are cheap and just use the unit that comes with the EV so say 17 hours. Cars are about half of that as the battery is half the size. That would be our case.

We only use about 8 kWh a day but our commute is only 50 kilometres. The car typically starts to charge at 2 in the morning and is done by three.