Home Charging & NEMA Outlets

Bought a 1959 rambler last year and inherited whatever electrical setup the previous owner left behind, which turned out to be a 60A main panel that nobody h...

I test Level 2 chargers for a living — installs, apartment lots, multi-user parking, the whole range — and I still second-guessed myself buying a charger for...

House was built in 1968, and the dryer outlet in the basement laundry room is the old 3-prong kind. Looked it up and it's a NEMA 10-30, not the newer 4-prong...

I manage a six-unit building in southern Maine, nothing fancy, three floors, shared parking lot behind the building. Two years ago one of the tenants asked a...

Finally got the HOA sign-off after months of back and forth, so now I'm actually looking at quotes for the Level 2 install itself, and I've hit a fork I didn...

Picked up a Lightning Flash back in March, my first EV after twenty-some years of gas trucks for the business. Mostly using it for material runs and job site...

Retired last spring, and my spouse picked up her first EV in June while I'm still on my own EV I've had for a few years now with an outlet already sorted out...

Bought this house in 2019. Previous owners had a 14-50 outlet in the garage for a hot tub that got hauled off before we closed — outlet stayed, unused, for a...

We just moved into a new build outside Austin (Manor) back in June, and the garage was stubbed for a 240V circuit but nothing ever got landed — the builder l...

Ioniq 5 shows up in three weeks and I'm finally scheduling the electrical work for my Boston condo's parking spot (I have a dedicated garage stall, thankfull...

Electrician quoted me almost double for a hardwired setup vs just running a NEMA 14-50 outlet and using the mobile connector that came with the car. Charges ...

Lightning's been our daily driver for almost a year now and my wife just picked up an EV6 last month, so all of a sudden we're a two-EV household with one 24...

Getting the panel work done regardless — main panel's maxed out and a subpanel's happening either way for other stuff in the garage, not just the car. Electr...

Eight months ago I plugged my wall-mount Level 2 charger — one of the ones with just a NEMA 14-30 plug on the end instead of being hardwired — into the dryer...

We've got a 2017 Volt and a Kia Niro PHEV sharing one garage, and between the two of them our actual daily miles are low enough that a full overnight top-off...

Finally getting around to wiring up the workshop out back — pouring the slab was the easy part, apparently. Adding EV charging while I'm at it since the Mode...

My wife's picking up a Mach-E from the dealership in Elk Grove next month, and I've been playing spreadsheet with electrician quotes for the past two weeks b...

Small 1970s ranch house, 100A panel already pretty full, so a dedicated 40A circuit for the Model 3 SR isn't a small ask for us. My electrician quoted the de...

Both of us drive Model 3s daily, my wife's is the commuter, mine does more weekend miles, and we've only got the one NEMA 14-50 wall unit in the garage from ...

Five years into owning an EV now and I have never once had home charging, driveway, garage, or otherwise, the entire time. I see a lot of posts from people i...

Okay so apparently my Leviton 14-50 outlet could actually melt? I've been charging every night for 3 months in my garage, which usually stays around 60 degre...

NEMA 14-50 outlet burned out after 6 months of use. Anyone else with Leviton or Hubbell have this issue? Wondering if I should switch brands or go hardwired.

Just got quoted $15k for a Level 2 install and about fell over. Is that a normal price or am I getting ripped off? House is on the older side if that matters...