Home Charging & NEMA Outlets

Figured I'd start a new thread on this since it's a little different from the usual "is L1 enough" question. I have a Model 3 Performance on order, and I'm w...

Had a 16A portable for the first year and honestly thought that was just what charging speed was. Upgraded to a 32A unit after getting tired of topping off b...

Have had a 16A portable unit since I got the car and it's been fine so far, but I keep seeing people talk about upgrading to 32A like 16A is just a starter t...

Trying to understand what actually changes day to day between Level 1 and Level 2, beyond just the obvious 'one's faster.' For anyone who's used both -- was ...

No 240V. No panel space to easily add one, and no budget for it for at least a year while we settle into the house. Just the standard wall outlet on the gara...

Torn between hardwired and the plug-in kind. Electrician quoted almost the same -- $1,600 for hardwired, $1,700 for the plug-in because he wants to install a...

I'm about to get a Level 2 charger installed and honestly I don't want any of the app/WiFi features -- I just want something that reliably delivers power wit...

Finally getting a hardwired Level 2 charger put in and now I'm stuck on the connector question. Current car is J1772 but it feels like NACS is becoming the s...

About to pick a charger for home and realizing there's way more to it than I expected -- amperage, whether it needs to be hardwired, smart features, cable le...

Electrician says running the wire out to my detached garage 200 feet away is doable but he wants to size the wire up significantly to deal with voltage drop ...

Keep seeing NEMA 14-50 mentioned as basically the standard way to charge off a 240V outlet, but trying to actually understand what it means in practice -- ho...

Looking to actually understand what makes one Level 1 charger better than another, since on paper they're all just plugging into the same outlet at the same ...

Trying to figure out if a Level 2 install is actually worth it or if I'm just going to be paying for speed I don't need. What was the actual thing that pushe...

Been doing Level 1 since I got the car almost a year ago and keep seeing people say it's not 'real' charging. Curious what everyone's actual experience has b...

I don't have room in the budget right now for a full Level 2 setup, so I was thinking about just having an electrician put in a 240V 20A NEMA 6-20 outlet on ...

Went from ~3 mph on the wall outlet to 25+ overnight. My wife stopped asking every morning if the car would be ready. That single question disappearing from ...

I've had my EV for about two months now and I've just been using the regular 120V outlet in my garage overnight, which keeps up fine with my daily mileage. E...

We're picking up our first EV in a few weeks and I've been trying to research home charging and now I have like 15 tabs open about amperage, breaker sizes, N...

Mine tops off from ~40% to 90% overnight on the 240V setup. Roughly 7 hours plugged in, though I'm never actually watching. My buddy has the same car and say...

Bought used six months ago, haven't upgraded the outlet yet. I'm getting maybe 40 miles overnight off the regular garage plug. My commute is 22 miles round-t...

Electrician installed a NEMA 14-50 outlet and I'm using a plug-in charger, mostly because it was faster to schedule and I liked the idea of being able to tak...

New EV owner here, car has around 280 miles of range and my weekly driving is pretty light, maybe 150 miles total. Been using the Level 1 cord that came with...

House panel is in the basement and the detached garage where I'd actually want to charge is about 180ft away across the backyard. There's no existing conduit...

Moved into a house that already has a NEMA 14-50 outlet in the garage from the previous owner (I think it was for a welder or an RV, not sure). I want to use...