This is incorrect. Level 2 charger requires are 30 amp circuit same as your dryer or stove.
Electrical Grid in Canada
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The problem with the public is they don't see beyond the "what's in it for me, right now?" thinking. Or maybe they'd love to, but they can't. They don't have the personal wealth to make these changes alone, or the power to affect the parts of the system they don't control (like the power grid).
These big decisions are supposed to be handled by political leaders, but they are even worse - and that is out fault. We keep supporting ones who make their careers either pretending to plan these improvements (but never doing it), or opposing any improvement and trying to keep people in the dark about how bad things are going to be if we don't. We should demand better of them, not cling to their party badges no matter what they do for (or do to) us. They are short-term opportunists because we are - we expect it, we demand it, we let our mainstream media punish them if they make the campaign "mistake" of telling hard truths and tacking tough issues realistically. "Pie in the sky" bullshit rules campaigns.
The forestry industry and the fishing industry got themselves into trouble, taking way too much - more than ever come back at the rate they are going. Mining is a similar tale of foolishness; everything acceptable already played out, so now they ask for what's not acceptable (and might actually get it). But did political leaders tell them "stop" or "scale back" or "smarten the fuck up"? Nope. If anything, they are afraid to - corrupt to begin with or just afraid of some counter-campaign that will drive them from office. So the fantasy that we can keep all the harvesting at this pace, and all the jobs, goes on. And it is a fantasy. That world is already dead and gone. They just don't have the guts to admit it.
As for the auto makers, Musk did not invent EVs. The Japanese (Toyota, Nissan) were the major sellers of hybrids and EV's, but the North American companies successfully tarred those vehicles as "wimpy" while killing off their own EV developments at a time when they were actually ahead of Japan's. What Musk did is popularize the EV, by making ones that were definitely not little wimpy vehicles - build an EV that can slaughter a Ford Mustang in a steer race, and suddenly people look at it in a whole new light. Either start engineering all sorts of EV's, or just go down the dead end of into "bigger and dirtier". The "Big 3" North American manufacturers pushed hard into the latter, starting the SUV & pickup boom (for drivers who never needed them), and neglecting everything else. Along comes Tesla, but not just Tesla, to make the Big 3 eat shit, and it was only them but the Euro and Asian companies too (though they can be just as stubborn in their own way). \
So now it is changing, but the power grid has yet to catch up. Even if you fix the power sources to be clean(er), you have to fix all the transmission in between too, because these days everything demands power. And some of these schemes to scrub carbon from the air, what do they require? Massive amounts of energy. Ditto for hydrogen production. Ditto for crypto/blockchain processing. How do we generate and transmit the energy for all that? Nobody seems to ask these questions - they just go ahead and waste more, pollute more.
So who is going to tackle the massive redesign of society's energy and resource usage? The traditional parties, who have been playing the cynical anti green or green-washing games since forever? Doubtful. They'll keep up that bullshit until it is literally too late for anyone to survive. But who's going to kick them to the curb for failing to deal with it properly? Us? LOL. Until we do, we'll just see society make the same mistakes over and over.
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I live in the country, while the power doesn't go out often here, when it does its not just a short outage.
I have some solar, but also a backup generator. In January the power was out for 45 hours.
At least I had enough power to keep the fridge cold, furnace running, and a few lights on. My vehicles are gas powered, so I wasn't stranded, and I keep spare gas around in gas cans. Too many people, rely too heavily on the grid, that could go down at any time .
Brings to mind the old saying about Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
I have some solar, but also a backup generator. In January the power was out for 45 hours.
At least I had enough power to keep the fridge cold, furnace running, and a few lights on. My vehicles are gas powered, so I wasn't stranded, and I keep spare gas around in gas cans. Too many people, rely too heavily on the grid, that could go down at any time .
Brings to mind the old saying about Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
There are different kinds of level 2 charger. Some chargers and cars can pull more than 40 amps.
That's correct, but the original post stated that you MUST have a 75 amp circuit to charge.
True. Technically you can just charge at 120/12 if you have a week to wait.
When I had my chevy bolt, I plugged into the 120 outside wall socket every day at work, and all night at home in my garage. It was trips that were an issue, advertised range was substantially more than real world range.
Oh, living out there, no doubt, this is a problem. One power line connecting you to the grid, and something takes a pole out (landslide, fire, flood, car accident) and who knows when power shall return. And of course, if the phone lines run off the same thin strand, whoops, there goes that too. Cel-tower? Got its power from guess where.
Solar and wind can add a measure of self-reliance, but depend on the same thing you can't control. If only one could store the summer surplus of power for up to 6 months. (Gee, if only someone built more local means to do so.)
But also, BC Hydro are not very forward-thinking or adaptive when people want to add this self-reliance in rural areas. (And BC Hydro is not nearly as bad as some other North American utility companies.) All they can do is charge less if you draw less. I hear stories that they have no provision to buy power back from small-scale individuals when those users have surplus power to give; it's just not part of their business model, therefore not their infrastructure either.
I can believe it. Test drove a Bolt once, and a Tesla. They do not test in places like BC. They test on nice flat temperate tracks to get the theoretical range. Batteries are often tested in labs that simulate driving rather than actually putting them out there for most of it.
Someone independent should be out there seeing how true the claims are. But who would fund that?
Actually, BC would be an excellent place for long-term automotive testing. From deep cold to extreme heat to torrential rain. From slow downtown roads to freeways to dirty little FSR's. Test a car by running up and down BC roads in all seasons, to let's say 50000 km or more. You could put a car through hell if you wanted, and see how the systems really perform.
Marketing guys at the companies would not like it much, but for the engineers it would be very valuable data in general.
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Brand new it got on average 54% of the advertised range, that dropped substantially as the car aged. I only had it 2 years, but I'll guess that by year 6, range would be around 20% of advertised.
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