EV Car Charging
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
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Usually I show you How to Build Food Trucks
but today I'll show you my first hand experience on charging the new HUMMER EV at Home.
Gives insight on what 30 amps of power will give you range wise on any EV car
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That's actually a good question asking about charging in the rain. EVs are very new territory for most of us.
I have charged my Tesla in the rain many many times
You got the stupendous Hummer EV to transport pizza **chuckle**
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Awesome truck! The hummer has a 212 kw battery. On 110v this thing would take about 5 days to charge fully from 0. That's insane. The model X with half the battery size is rated to go 10 miles further total range on a charge for reference. I guess the Hummer is still the least efficient vehicle out there LOL. Still even with lack efficiency the Hummer EV still costs about 25-35 dollars to fill up, depending where in the US you are buying your electricity. A 40 amp L2 charger at home will give you about 10kw a hour so would take about 21 hours to charge the Hummer to full from empty. The good thing is most EV drivers are just topping it off to 80 percent most nights. Even so I don' think anyone can get by with just 110 volt charger on the hummer. It's hard enough doing it with a model 3 and average commute let alone something 3 times less efficient.
Right now I topped off the other day just to see capacity I reach 430 miles. Which is the most I've seen and the miles are pretty accurate 1 to 1 for now. Yes definitely on 110 would suck!!! Lol
@@fbaltierrez the only way to really be accurate is drain it down to like 10 percent and charge it up and do it again. Real world test is highway driving at like 70-75 mph with some local driving too. From what I've seen on forums, people on road trips were getting under 300 miles while cruising at 75mph but that was just the few that have done some long road trips.
Nice simple video and informative. I have a reservation for the hummer ev, will see if GM will increase production. At least I know I should be prepared to put a 240v 60amps.
For sure that is the best option. Max out the miles
@@fbaltierrez BTW, you say that you are using it as a daily driver, which I will assume most of your driving is around 55mph or less, but are you getting around 1.5miles per kWh?
Would be cool if you made another video just showing the exact Powerbar plugged into Your house outlet.
@@terryhammer9493 it's just a normal breaker, like you would have to your AC unit or an electric dryer. It's nothing special that is needed. But great idea, might be possible to just show the connections
The hummer use the same outlet of the Tesla and can you use super charger on the hummer?
Thanks for the post.
BTW, If you ever get a chance to DC fast charge it. It would be great to see a post on that DC fast charging session. Since GM claims that it can charge, up to 350 kW. But I have only seen a TFL-EV, DC fast charging session and it maxxed at less than half that rate or about 174 kW.
Maybe I just misunderstood you, that must be a 50 amp breaker and 8 or 6ga wire if it's a NEMA 14-50 receptacle? If it's only a 30 amp breaker and 10ga, you're really riding that edge at 32 amps that the EVSE draws. It likely wouldn't be up to code either, especially not for the 80% de-rate EV charging or other continuous loads require. Kinda dangerous IMO. My 8ga THHN at 40 amps gets pretty warm after a while. Not too hot to touch, but not ideal either. I will upgrade that short section to 6ga eventually. I ran out of 6ga between the disconnect in the garage and the EVSE, but had a ton of 8 laying around so I just used that since it was only a few feet. From breaker to disconnect is 6, and that only gets just above skin temp.
And yes, as far as I know, tesla still includes the J1772->Tesla adapter. I installed a J1772 EVSE at my house and use the adapter to just leave on it. Bought a spare to keep in the glovebox. I also bought a handful of the NEMA adapters to charge in various locations, along with making some of my own. Sometimes I drive out to the sticks for work and stay at hotels and work sites that have oddball receptacles. A lot of industrial stuff, so usually LL6-20 and 6-30 receptacles.
You don't have to use a 50 amp breaker/outlet. You can use any size or amperage you want. The truck will know how much to pull in amps, in the Tesla you can adjust the amperage as well. It just affects the miles you charge per hour. Mine only pull 22 amps doesn't go over 30
@@fbaltierrez What I was getting at is that you were using the NEMA 14-50 plug on the EVSE, which will tell the car it can pull up to 32 amps if you don't set it lower. (both the Hummer and Tesla EVSE's will allow 32A with the 14-50 plug on it) But if the rest of the circuit is not rated for that, then that's not good.
I thought you said in some point in the video you only had a 30 amp breaker on that circuit, but maybe I mis-heard that.
And yeah, I only set mine to charge at ~20A in summer, 24A in winter. I rarely charge at the max of 40A as it's usually unnecessary and creates quite a bit of wasted heat anyway. If I had a hummer or F150, I would probably charge at least 32A, those trucks are thirsty!
Hi 👋🏾,
How much does it weight Frank?
Almost 10,000 lbs
But you should know you need a L2 connection to charge overnight in less time.... Plus read the owners manual and instructions before...
Yes that is correct, A level 2 is considered anything 240Volt.
Did you have a reservation? If so, did the dealer still charge over MSRP?
Yes reservation since 2020 delivered 18 months later. And No, dealer was the best, charged just MSRP. Haggerty in Villa Park
Run down to 1 mile. That means you ran your gasoline car all the way down almost to the 'E' haha