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Presumably you would have started your day with a full charge, and be unlikely to run out even if stuck for a day. We switched to an EV last month and what surprised me the most was the mindset change required - you need to treat the car more like a phone that you keep topped off, instead of the gas car you tend to run down to near empty to maximize time between refills. The big hidden requirement is to have a powerful charging circuit at home, enough to charge the car overnight (60A/240V circuit for us). Without that the EV would be too cumbersome.


I've been charging off a standard 10A/240v for years and have yet to have a problem. If you plug in at dinner and leave in the morning, that's 200km range overnight added. If you don't drive 200km that day, it rolls over.




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