Well this exposes the fallacy of the selling of these things. “Just drive it and you will be sold.” That has been pushed here quite a bit but there is more to any vehicle ownershit. A $10k electrical upgrade is not anything to sneeze at either.
I owned an antique plug in many years with a whopping 40amp panel and had no real issues.
Unless his daily drive is 100+ miles and there are no public chargers he likely can make due with 110vac
ESPECIALLY if his work has an open 110v outlet .
Most BEV owners only have 110 but have access to some form of public or quick charger locally.
Before the state changed the title fees.
When I did the math on the $9999 Chevy Bolt I found I could do my long weekend trips (not up north mind you) with only 110v access because I have the ability to charge on 110 at work . My daily driver trips are usually under 10-20 miles so I would have a full charge by Wednesday or Thursday then could do my weekend thing with enough charge remaining to easily get back.
Next there is never a need to upgrade a panel for an EV
If L2 is convenient you can easily/cheaply make any circuit switchable be it an oven, water heater or dryer circuit . My father rigged the welder in the garage this way and he had under a $100 invested, just couldn’t run the dryer and welder at the same time.
You can then match the L2 EVSE to the available power
AKA The op likely doesn’t need the full capacity of his onboard charger to do his daily driving and the truck can charge at any speed .
you never financially make back what you pay in toward any charging upgrades, so it’s best to figure out what you need and not max it out.
If equality and vehicular diversity are our raisons d'etre, how to square gasoline/diesel road taxes with EVs? Electric cars pay none.
Maybe if we just all identify our ICE vehicles as EVs we can slide under the tax radar.
I don’t see what that nonsense has to do with anything and it’s patently false
the average gas economy car only pays $25-$50 annually on gas taxes in most areas.
Gas and registration taxes only cover a very small percentage of road costs and the rest comes from general funds.
In my area cement trucks, sand haulers, logging and taxis are road tax exempt, semi operators write off road taxes paying nothing.
Next Every municipality in the US charges the power producer a high municipal substation tax.
10-50% of consumer electric bills go to paying municipal substation taxes which is far higher in most cases than gas tax
With 2 exceptions…
all the red/orange states already charge EVs an annual fee that exceeds the amount normally paid by a typical gas economy car,
If the government is worried about getting even more taxes they can easily manipulate municipal substation taxes (or any other myriad of taxes)
I find the concept of fair share laughable when those that do the most damage are subsidized by people who don’t even drive.
If we want fair and equitable and not regressive we should completely eliminate annual registration and find our way towards funding roads in a different way than a complex myriad of nonsense that costs more to administer than it receives.
