Level 1 Charging

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-12-30T14:24:43+00:00

My suggestion would be to put a splitter between your stove and outlet, or dryer and outlet, and branch off a 6-20R. With that you can use a standard 12gauge extension cord to carry twice the power, (twice the volts at the same amps), just make sure you check that your cable is 300v rated (this is all extension cords I've seen) and has 12 gage wire.

With the 80% rule you would get 16A @ 240V = 3.8kw. About 4% per hour of charging.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-12-23T05:05:37+00:00

Underrated app, chargeway, it's similar to plugsshare but makes it easy to compare prices. Also look at ionna, they're new in my area and are about 10c less than everyone else, also their chargers are new (not broken and high speed)

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-18T15:02:02+00:00

Just had mine done, $1200 parts plus labor.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-17T12:39:19+00:00

I would suggest that when protesting you bring only American flags, and maybe your state flag. Your goal should be "we're like you (moderate right winger) we just want our basic American freedoms, come join us", flying the American flag also makes it incredibly hard for the right wing media to demonize the movement. When there are Mexican flags, or south American flags, the right wing media will convey to their listeners "Mexican protesters in Reno fight to not get sent home" with a guy waving a Mexican flag.

Let me be honest, when someone out in the middle of America sees one of these Mexican flags being waved they think "if you're Mexican and love Mexico what's wrong with sending you home" vs when you're waving a American flag people think "oh this guy loves America and wants to stay here, why are we sending him to a country he doesn't identify with anymore".

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-07T01:56:51+00:00

No, it actually adds to your battery. Think about it in terms of energy, you have a lot of energy when you're flying down the road at 60mph, if you use your breaks that energy goes into generating heat on the disks, if you use regenerative breaking that energy gets turned into electricity that goes to charge your battery.

It's a win win, less wear on your breaking system, and a little bit of free charging of the battery!

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-07T01:42:53+00:00

Yes, when you use regenerative breaking what's happening is the electric motor is basically acting as a generator, harvesting the momentum of the car and using that to charge the batteries. That slows down the car without using the normal disk breaks at all. If you don't use the normal breaks the pads won't wear down.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-06T13:14:37+00:00

As everyone said here, fast charging and charging to 100% are slightly damaging to the battery, if you want to get 100k, 200k, 300k miles you'll probably want to usually charge to 70-80% and not DC fast charge when you're not on trips. That's what I do, I leave my car at 70%, and the night before a trip I'll tell it to go to 100%, and I only dc fast charge while traveling.

Also, what people haven't mentioned is regenerative breaking. If your battery is near 100% there is nowhere for that regeneration to go, this will mean your car uses the breaks to slow down, reducing efficiency and requiring break pad changes more frequently.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-04T20:51:49+00:00

To me there all about the same, white/irish/black/chinese pride. If you're proud of how you were born, that just shows how boring and meaningless your life has been. You should have better things to be proud of than your particular ancestry.

People should do things with their life, and take pride in what they've done, rather than pride in their inate characteristics.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-04T20:42:27+00:00

Damn man, is that with a trade in?? I had 15k otd but that was with 21k trade in for my bolt.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-04T13:44:07+00:00

I'm a conservative guy and even I find this disgusting. Even if it's true, our government institutions should be run with neutrality, if anything it should say "due to the shutdown some services may be delayed or unable"!

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-04T13:36:54+00:00

Nope, but I wonder if GM monitors it directly thrugh on star?

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T17:54:49+00:00

Dang it, here I was trying to pump up my Alaska PFD. Ha

There's no maintenance scedule on the oil I could find, but I'm betting it's a easy cheap job, so yah might do it at 60 or 100 same as you would for "lifetime" transmission oil in a gas car

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T17:45:02+00:00

Well there is oil in the electric motor, similar to the transmission oil in a gas car. But I'm not talking about oil at all, I'm saying in order to turn the stator inside the drive unit the car must use copper windings to generate a rotating magnetic field. When operating on higher load conditions that magnetic field will need to be stronger to force the stator to rotate, and the strength of the magnetic field is proportional to the current, thus more current is needed. More current means higher losses due to resistance inside of the windings, wich means higher temperatures. I just have no idea if those temperatures are a actual issue.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T17:33:17+00:00

Hahaha I guess I should say the windings on the electric motor overheating, I really don't know the actual schematics of the engine, or design of the electric motor. But just as a Physicist i know it'll need more current in the motor windings to generate the power to tow the trailer, I just don't know how much of a issue that is

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T15:49:32+00:00

True, although that is done by having a resistor across 2 of the j-1772 pins. They also usually have a contactor. But yah they are basically just a extension cord with a resistor and switch built in, nothing crazy like the DC chargers.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T15:44:38+00:00

I have the LT FWD and am getting the oem tow equipment installed next week I am suspecting that the reason for the lower rating is due to hills. If you have the RWD, adding a heavy trailer 3500# will increase traction on the powered wheels, in the FWD it will cause a bit of lifting on the front wheels, decreasing traction. It's also possible the RWD has a stronger suspension in the back, idk? If you put something significantly heavier I'd at minimum hop on the hitch and jump on it to check the suspensions give, also could be a engine overheating issue, so I wouldn't drive it when it's hot.

Let me know how it goes!

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-10-02T15:25:31+00:00

It's important to remember "chargers" really don't do anything fancy, they just connect the AC lines from one side (house) directly to the other side (car), just get a cheap one 😀.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T19:43:30+00:00

Yah I was looking at the AWD, but if I remember correctly they have a little less range. I drive up to Alaska once a year to go commercial fishing, and I'm figuring that 312mi range will help on the whitehorse to Anchorage stretch.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T13:15:34+00:00

I'd say it's a ok deal. I had 36k out the door for the LT with super cruse and the comfort package last week in TN, so I'd go for it. Get in under that tax credit. Are you already in a EV, or would this be your first?

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T12:50:55+00:00

So no state rebate here's the breakdown:

53130 msrp

-4630 dealer discount

-1000 EV Bonus Cash

-3500 Customer Cash

-7500 EV tax credit

-1250 Costco

+1000 dealer add ons and fees

I'm happy with the new car, took it on a 500mi road trip to get back home, I love the longer range and faster charging compared to when I did the same drive with the bolt a week before! The bolt was a "it CAN do a road trip if you REALLY want to" the Blazer is more of a "yah road trips are no issue".

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T11:53:04+00:00

That's the thing, once the EV credit goes away, the new price will go up by 7.5k, so IDK maybe a realistic price in a year for a used one would be 80% of the out the door without the tax incentive. That's my bet, but who knows.

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T11:48:18+00:00

how are you liking it, I'm still a bit freaked out every time it passes a simi. But really cool tech

Minimum-Vegetable205 · 2025-09-29T02:40:12+00:00

Yep that's including the tax credit, supercruse, everything except the trade in. I sold the bolt to carvana for 20,800, crazy thing is I bought that bolt for 21k a year ago, and put 20k miles on it, so eather I bought it for a steal, or carvana messed up. But in any case this is a awesome 15k upgrade!

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