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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9453715" data-attributes="member: 984">This is one of the interesting little flips in the mind to do with an EV: to think of them more like your phone.  We don't worry that we have to go somewhere and sit for two hours while our phones charge, because electricity is everywhere.  If we need to plug in, we can.  Natch, EV charging spots are not quite that ubiquitous yet, but if think of it more like phones we also don't necessarily need for them to all be L2 or L3 chargers.  Plugging into into a 120V/15A circuit will net approx 5 miles of range per hour of charging.  It ain't much, but with frequency it adds up.  Consider that say you plug in at home (and didn't get a 240V 30A or 50A circuit installed) overnight that can add up to 50 miles of range, which will cover many people's daily drives.  If at work you get access to another bog standard outlet, you could get an additional 40mi from the 8h workday too, which is starting to encroach into 100mi of slow charge per day.  What's nice about that is that adding 120V circuits is relatively trivial (compared to adding 208V or 240V).  Heck, 25 years ago many of my university's parking lots already had 120V outlets available for each parking space -- to plug in your the block heater so your car could start in the morning.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One little tip I've found useful for long distance driving to speed things up:  because the batteries charge quicker when they're at a lower state of charge, it's better to run the batteries down to 25%-30% and charge with more frequent short-time stops rather than try to charge to full in one or two stops.  Even with getting off the road more often, it can often save appreciable amounts of time.  (That said, on many of my own long travels in my EV I will end up charging nearly to full during some food break.)</blockquote>

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