Mashedtators
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240v isn’t more efficient in terms of saving money for energy. It’s more efficient in moving electrons through smaller wire than the same amount of energy using 120v.Generally speaking, 120 V would be adequate for my needs. I always have the option to drive ICE when needed.
I read somewhere that 240 V is more efficient. The efficiency difference can't be anywhere near the cost of running a 240 V line to my garage. But I did it anyway.
Regardless, I charge at the lowest setting (16 Amps) and only to 60% most days.
What kind of trucks did you own? I work for Volvo Trucks as a Manufacturing Engineering Product Owner in the assembly plant, so I’m hoping you say Volvo or Mack!The garage attached to the house is I'll guess about 14' wide and 22' long, and just 8' tall ceilings. My Ram 1500 just barely fits in the door.
My truck shop is 40' wide, and 100' long, and 18 foot tall ceilings. It actually has 2 Blaze king wood stoves, but I usually only light 1, whichever is closest to where I'll be working.
I had 13 semi trucks, and 22 trailers at the peak of my business. Sold them all in 2022, and retired. Well i tried to retire, 2 long time friends who are owner operators of their own truck, asked me if I would drive for them every year when they take vacation time. Both were once employees of mine, and bought a truck and trailer from me when I was retiring. I'm happy to work 6 weeks a year for them, if its summer time. I don't chain up any more at -30, or care to drive in blinding snow storms anymore, i did that for 40 years.
Do love my 640 acres of privacy, and 310 acres is in hay, and the wife and i have 4 horses, 2 young and rideable, and our 2 old hay burners, we no longer ride but will live out their lives here on the farm. We sell the extra hay we grow, or trade it for beef/goat/chicken/eggs/milk. So yes I love where i live, about 5 kms of gravel road to the hwy, and then 25 kms of hwy to town, so a typical round trip for us to town is 60 kms. The wife rarely drives, but when she does will drive my pickup, since I didn't replace her suv she totalled 3 winters ago. She will not drive in the winter at all now, maybe drives 10 times a year total now, in summer. Which is why i consider it my pickup, even though we technically share a vehicle. At 500 kms a year she drives, its barely enough to call it driving.
There is about a 400W overhead anytime you are charging so you waste more energy while charging on level 1 since it takes much longer. If I charge 10 hours on level 1 to get the same charge I can get in 1 hour on level 2 I will waste 4 kWh versus only 0.4 kWh.240v isn’t more efficient in terms of saving money for energy. It’s more efficient in moving electrons through smaller wire than the same amount of energy using 120v.
You still pay the same for the amount of energy consumed.
That makes sense- thanks for the specificsThere is about a 400W overhead anytime you are charging so you waste more energy while charging on level 1 since it takes much longer. If I charge 10 hours on level 1 to get the same charge I can get in 1 hour on level 2 I will waste 4 kWh versus only 0.4 kWh.
Source?There is about a 400W overhead anytime you are charging so you waste more energy while charging on level 1 since it takes much longer. If I charge 10 hours on level 1 to get the same charge I can get in 1 hour on level 2 I will waste 4 kWh versus only 0.4 kWh.