Home charging using 220v

[RichB-HTX]

I have a 50 amp 220 volt circuit and charge with a 40amp Juicebox. I get about 15 mph added.

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[Frankhpns]

Just wondering about other people's experience with charging I'm using a home charger actually using our Tesla cable plugged into our extra 220v outlet with an lectron adapter. My wife's model 3 charges at 24-25 miles per hour. My new lightning I'm only getting about 13 miles per hour can anybody tell me if I'm doing something wrong or how to increase the miles per charge time

I normally charge at 39 amps with an after-market EVDance charger at 240 volts which equates to about 9360 Watts of power. I have a 131 KWH battery that works out to about 13.99 hours from 0 to 100% in a perfect world. The time will vary from 80 to 100% since the charge rate is not linear.

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[RickKeen]

I plug in my Lightning and walk away. Its always charged before I need to drive it again. Seems fast enough.

 

[Maquis]

I plug in my Lightning and walk away. Its always charged before I need to drive it again. Seems fast enough.

That’s all that matters!

 

[chl]

Just wondering about other people's experience with charging I'm using a home charger actually using our Tesla cable plugged into our extra 220v outlet with an lectron adapter. My wife's model 3 charges at 24-25 miles per hour. My new lightning I'm only getting about 13 miles per hour can anybody tell me if I'm doing something wrong or how to increase the miles per charge time

2023 Ford Charge Station Pro bought on eBay in Jan 2024 on a 240V 100A breaker and wiring

I have a 2023 SR Pro also bought in Jan 2024 so the max charge current is 48A (11.52kW power) - I put the FCSP on the 100A breaker and wiring so that I had the option of charging faster with a different vehicle - looks like Ford now limits the 2024's to 48A - oh well

I used the Ford Mobile Power Cord a few times before the FCSP was installed charging at 30A I guess.

All my driving right now is local short trips, 35mph and below, and not driving every day, so I can work with charging from 50%-80% once or twice a month - only drive from 100 to 200 mile per month in the Lightning (wife prefers the ride of her Prius - who knows why)

My truck tells me through FordPass that my charging is at about 10kW (plus or minus a few hundred kW, it varies a little bit from charge to charge)

I am on the Winter time of day utility charge rate which is 5.79 cents per kWh, Summer rate is 4.8 cents per kWh, so I am spending about 1.5 cents in the Summer to 2.0 cents in the winter per mile driven

I have only use the heated seat so far this season for heat and in the summer on a rare occasion I used the AC, but I live in temperate Northern Virginia so no extreme weather generally

My miles per kWh is comparable to what I get from my 2012 Nissan Leaf bought in Dec 2011 which was a pleasant surprise - I learned to drive non-aggressively with the Leaf to get the max mileage from a charge, so that has paid off with the Lightning

Still don't have the Tesla adapter - status still says expected to ship in Nov 2024 - 5 days left - what are the odds

UPDATE: they changed the est to December 2024, of course.

 

[chl]

Rough guess is that the outlet is 220V/30A, which gets a Tesla Model 3 LR in that ballpark.

220V is what it used to be, the standard is now usually more like 240VAC in my neck of the woods.

Upping your amperage will mean a new breaker (assuming the main panel has room/overhead for the raised amperage), new wiring (pulling out the existing gauge wire and going for a wire gauge rated for the new amperage), a new plug (the plug may be rated for 30A), and potentially a new EVSE (charger), as if you are using a mobile adapter it is only rated for 48A. It's not terribly expensive, but with an electrician you could be looking at a ballpark of $1k (the good news is you can claim 30% of that cost back on your 2024 taxes on the Inflation Reduction Act).

Caveat for the EVSE tax credit: The tax credit for an EVSE is limited to certain geographical areas based on income data from the census - see the publication.

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