That isn't the point. It's expensive to get a charger in your garage.
Compared to the cost of the car, the cost of a home charger is negligible. When you add the savings to it with an average mileage, the return on investment is measured in months, not even a year. If you add the value it adds to selling your house, it is a no-brainer.
Agree it's convenient, til it catches fire.
You don't seem to want to have a discussion when you introduce silly ad-hominem like that. If an electrical appliance catches fire, it wasn't installed correctly. There is no reason for it to catch fire when installed correctly and in line with building regulations.
Unless they want to use a basic 120v power that takes hours and hours to charge the car
The ROW runs on 240V, my house in the UK is at 240V with 32A. It is 7kWh that it would supply. Our home in the Netherlands is at a three-phase supply, it can do 22 kWh pending the car, our car built-in charger is limited to 11kWh
🙂 In the UK we have a night tariff of 5 hours with very cheap energy, it is plenty to fill up the car for above average daily mileage, and in the rare event we use more, it will top it up by the second day. How long it takes is actually irrelevant as you'll be asleep
🙂 For our home in the Netherlands it is a more complicated and smart system where it not only combines with solar generation, but also with national grid balancing, and home battery storage. Basically the operating costs are as good as zero, and at times actually makes money
🙂 Sure an investment was required, but as that house did not have anything yet, literally nothing, no heating, no electricity, no floor, no ceilings, no running water, it had to be done anyway. So may as well do it in a modern sustainable manner.
,....and it's 49% UK people that said they would go back to ICE. That's even more than us.
You like it and that's great but half the people seem to not be sold on it.
The devil is in the details. I've never met anyone who made the move to EV to return to ICE. The ones I hear complain about is where they got a company car, have no charging at home, and can only charge in public. And I do have sympathy for that.
I think what they do and the electronic info is cool on the inside and it's cheaper than had to charge at a charge station but as of now, I've no plans to buy a EV anytime soon..
I understand that, you are clearly still very much in the stage of where you believe the misinformation published, likely as it provides confirmation that you are making the right decision. yet here you are, clearly interested.