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Roughly where in the world do you live that garages don't have power?

An ordinary 120v/15a household circuit can only provide about 2 miles of charge per hour. I run an unusually car-lite lifestyle for an American and that wouldn't do it even for me.

You need an electrician to run a new 240v circuit and, in many cases, a new main service for the house to accommodate it.

Depends on your car. If you have a particularly inefficient/large EV then maybe, but if your car can do 3mi/kwh then you’ll get a little over 3 miles of charge per hour. That doesn’t sound like much but it’ll get you 36 miles in 12 hours, so could work for short commutes or if you have a hybrid WFH position it’d almost certainly be fine.

I only ever charge on 120V personally and have no problem, though anyone who was going to buy an EV planning on charging that way should run the numbers with the EV they’re looking at. ABRP can do a pretty good job of it.

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