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  • jturkishBtoElectric Vehicles@gearhead.townUsed Wallboxes
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    1 year ago

    Is the wallbox a smart charger? I get wallbox and one other charger mixed up between the two. I read a story on the evse sub reddit where someone bought a smart charger from eBay. They got it installed and working but then the manufacturer remotely shut down or locked the charger from working saying it was stolen






  • My truck is currently averaging a tiny bit less than 2 miles per kWh. That means a 1kwh portable power station will give me a whopping 2 miles of range. Quick search for portable power stations it seems they won’t be very portable once they have large capacity. I found a 3600 watt portable station that’s 100 lbs, that doesn’t seem ideal to lug around. Plus if I’m averaging 2 mi/kWh, 3.6 kWh station will only give me 7 miles of range, assuming I can get all of the 3600 watts into my truck without any loss, which isn’t likely. $3,000 for this big portable station, expandable to 25 kWh which is my math is correct I’ll need to buy 6 more of these, the extra battery stations are $2000 which means I’ll need to pay $12,000 plus the main battery station of $3000, so $15,000 to get me 25 kWh. My truck battery pack is 98kwh, let’s say 100 kWh for easy math. This means $15,000 will get me only a 25% charge.





  • Those rams are super sharp rigs, congrats on your move

    My lightning replaced a 2013 Tahoe and we were paying around $200 in gas every month. It was getting old and in my town the Tahoe/Yukon/suburban vehicles are very popular so for me to replace it by options would be a used Tahoe with 120k miles for $20k or something newer which are few and far between and I’d spend maybe close to $40k . The lightning was 57 so I wasn’t far off, is kind of a wash with the savings on gas, those savings go to the truck payment now