Sunday, May 12, 2024

Upgrading to a New Electric car? Better figure a couple Thousand for a new Electrical Service Panel to be able to charge it.

 So you decided to get one of those new slick electric cars . 

you go to the dealership and they give you this small charger you plug into a wall outlet and  plug it into your car and find out it takes 24 hours to charge your car. 


 

That's entirely unreasonable so you go online and buy a faster charger and that's where the fun begins.  

These chargers draw 60 amps of power no big deal you think I will just hire local electrician pay him a few hundred dollars and he will wire it in. Wrong 


You only have a 100 amp electrical service panel and its already has an Air conditioning system on it 

 leaving no room to add the 60 amp car charger now what?

Well you are going to have to upgrade your electrical service to 200 amps  which can cost from $2500.00 to 5000.00 dollars to do so .

But no worries you do have a newer home and 200 amp service good to go right? maybe not you may have to upgrade as well depending what all is drawing on that 200 amp service especially if your hoe is all electric

So before you start deciding to buy that electric car or Hot tub for that matter  check to make sure your not going to have to put thousands more out of your pocket

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