Earth Day becomes Electric Vehicle Day (for me)

[saintyohann]

RAMd®d wrote: I either forgot, or you haven't mentioned it, but do you have a 220/240V charging station? If one already has the garage wired for 220V (electric dryer?) what't involved in adding such a charging station?

I do have two of the 240V charging stations at my house. Both were installed while California was participating in the EV Project.

For adding a charging station, it depends on the outlet you have and the city you live in... Some municipalities require charging stations to be hardwired, not plugged. But difficulty-wise, you'd buy a station ($400-1000), add the right NEMA head to match your dryer socket and mount it on the wall.

But it's even easier for the new Volt. It comes with a 110V plug from a company called ClipperCreek (really good products, I recommended them to Speedy). They over-engineered the box and it will do 240V charging if you use a pigtail adapter.