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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I don't understand why most electric vehicles only come with 120v only chargers.
If you can't charge at work your realistic range is only around 50 miles per work day that's if you give the car 10 hours of charge time.
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They include a 120v charger because that is what most people have in their garage. If someone is going to bother to hire an electrician to wire a 220V plug the charger won't cost much more.
I only have the 120V charger that came with my Spark at home. I mounted it on the wall and ran a dedicated circuit for it. My round trip commute is 50 miles so I could get by only charging on 120V. I also have have 14 hours to charge on an average work day so that would give me about 70 miles per day charging on 120V. However, I have free charging at work so that is where it gets charged.