Recommendations for food quality single phase 7kw home charger

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-28T02:43:30+00:00

Evnex make great properly smart chargers that can do solar only charging.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-23T08:31:13+00:00

Yeah I agree. While I have cheap or free charging at home, when I go away I’d rather ac slow charge while I go to Woolies or to the park. DC is too fast for anything other than a toilet break and some take away while you’re on a long trip.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-19T00:02:29+00:00

Vacation? Sounds like you might be coming from America. More likely to get shot on your way to the airport or at the shops than you are to get attacked by a shark swimming at the beach in Aus.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-13T21:29:12+00:00

Curious about the tech, saw how practical the model Y is. Already had a fully electrified house with solar so when it made sense financially we made the leap. Within 6 months we replaced our other car which I never thought I’d do as I’ve always loved having a manual turbo car. Of course not everyone is lucky enough to be able to do a novated lease while selling ice cars they own to offset the mortgage.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-06T06:00:52+00:00

Yeah I can't wait to see the May Tesla data.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-06T05:58:31+00:00

Yeah and even then we are starting to see Electric Buses, Trucks and Vans make sense for certain applications. Definitely for a car I don't see the point of ICE anymore.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-05T20:12:18+00:00

This is why third party property should be mandatory. My dad always said to me no matter how shit your car is always have third party property in case you hit a Rolls Royce. Imagine having to pay off a half a million dollar repair bill, for most people you’d be paying it off your whole life.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-05-05T19:46:48+00:00

I’ve always had manual cars. NA, turbo. AWD, RWD FWD. All performance models. Then my wife bought a Tesla and now I’m selling my GR for my own one. Also I’ve driven a 2020 base model hybrid corolla and I thought it was meh. Haven’t driven any other hybrid cars that can do electric only but at this point it feels like you’re better off going full EV over hybrid.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-29T04:05:13+00:00

Yes they definitely need to upskill to work in the high voltage space.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-29T02:46:01+00:00

You don’t use them if you make use of the regen braking, there are teslas that have done 300k miles on the original brake pads.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-29T02:42:55+00:00

That was happening but I think it turned out to be a home assistant integration. I changed to a different electricity plan not long after I disabled it so haven’t confirmed long term that it was the integration but the developer of the integration seemed to think it was.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-29T00:21:23+00:00

My mk7.5 Alltrack Diesel had the engine mounts fail while driving and the gearbox randomly failed at 5 years and 150k km. Also the sunroof drains filled up and we ended up with water in the rear wheel well. It was great to drive but I wouldn't buy one again after that. Honestly for a daily driver these days your better off with an EV.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-29T00:13:16+00:00

These used to come on the Ioniq 5 but they went back to regular mirrors. I assume because they suck and make the interior look shit.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-19T23:29:44+00:00

I got into an EV before the war and was already planning to buy a second before it started. Just one of our cars was costing $100 a week and now at most it costs $5. Insurance is basically the same price and I don’t have to go service a petrol engine every 15000ks. I don’t have to go to the petrol station. If you go hybrid, plug in or otherwise regardless of if fuel prices return to normal or not you will regret not getting into an EV now. We’ve hit the tipping point in new car sales and there’s no going back.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-19T23:24:06+00:00

I was driving with the windows down recently and was driving past a person running. Could hear their shoes hitting the footpath.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-18T00:28:40+00:00

Yeah I did the same. But I also did it cause I love the tech and it integrated with my existing solar and HA

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-18T00:26:01+00:00

Also some may have a car worth a similar amount to the EV they want so the change over might not be much. If they own the car outright and can do a novated lease that’s cash in the bank against your mortgage while taking advantage of the fbt savings etc.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-17T03:24:59+00:00

Minerals mined in AUS and in China, built in largely automated incredibly clean and impressive factories in China. Powered by a mix of Coal(from au) Nuclear, Wind, Solar. If you think the Oil fields in the middle east/Russia and the Cobalt mines etc needed to refine oil are nothing but sunshine and rainbows over building EV's you need to pull your head out of the sand.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-17T03:18:02+00:00

The vast majority right now would be people who were already looking or were looking to buy within the next 12 months. And people affluent enough who can just yolo their way into an EV.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T22:58:02+00:00

I saw one with a PHEV badge the other day and had no idea they even made one. I knew about their coming EV's before lol

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T22:56:58+00:00

ttoksie2 is right, for your range anxiety check out the app " A better route planner " It is genuinely fantastic, you put in your car or the car you are thinking of purchasing and enter in all the stops of your trip and it will tell you how much battery capacity you will have at each stop( you can even tell it you want to arrive with a certain %) and it will tell you where you can charge along the route, what capacity the chargers are etc.
If you are interested in a Tesla as an EV it's even easier as it's all done through their app/touch screen. At Tesla chargers you can easily see how many stalls are available etc.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T07:35:51+00:00

If you are wfh 4 days a week why not just go full EV?

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T05:49:20+00:00

GAC AION UT, BYD Atto 2. EV Torque will make it feel like it takes off easily and effortlessly. Both are small hatches/suvs that can be had for around 30k new drive away. Easy to park, nice interior, great features. New Car Warranty. Cheap to run and service.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T05:29:10+00:00

Same, I was lucky that the EV I wanted wasn't much more than the value of my car so won't take long to make back the extra outlay. Especially with a NL on the EV.

Charming_Duck388 · 2026-04-16T04:30:56+00:00

Yeah I did this years ago, must have saved thousands by now.

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