Big mistake to avoid when buying an electric car

South Africans buying an electric vehicle should pay attention to their chosen model’s maximum AC charging capacity. Failure to do so could detract from the overall EV charging experience, particularly at home.The latter is used in public charging infrastructure and can reach high speeds with expensive and advanced internal equipment and thick, highly protected cabling.

Instead of thinking of the charging controller as “pushing” electricity from the grid to the car, one should see the process as the built-in charger “pulling” electricity through the controller. We could not change the charging connector’s setting to increase the current until we adjusted it in the infotainment settings.Due to the misconception about AC “chargers”, Dann said EV owners often don’t understand why they cannot get the maximum AC charging speeds advertised with their charging cable.

In any event, the user will require a three-phase connection to increase charging speeds beyond 7.4kW. With South African motorists’ typical two-way 44km daily commute, most EV owners will be topping up with 10% to 20% per day, taking one or two hours.

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