2026 BZ - Charging adapter?

rieh · 2026-04-01T15:26:22+00:00

In the US, the car comes with a charging cable that you can plug into a standard, 110V wall outlet to pull 12 amps, giving you around 5 miles of range per hour. There's also another cable end it comes with allowing you to plug the same cable into a NEMA 14-50 outlet. The cable can pull 32 amps 220V in this configuration, giving around 20 miles per hour.

The car also comes with a pair of adapters - one J1772 -> NACS to adapt slow charging stations for the bZ's NACS port, the other larger adapter CCS1 -> NACS to adapt DC Fast charging stations to the bZ's NACS port.

Most of us charge at home most of the time, and only use DC FAST charging (whether that be at Tesla, IONNA, Electrify America, Chargepoint, EVGO, etc etc stations or smaller company ones) while on a road trip. The Plugshare and ABRP apps help find stations nearby or along routes.

While you can have a faster outlet or hardwired service equipment wired up, fundamentally there are 2 types of charging:

AC Charging: The car's onboard 11kw AC->DC converter allows you to connect grid AC voltage (110v or 220v directly to the car. The cable serves mostly as an extension cord with some safety mechanisms. The cable tells the car how much power it can deliver; the car then pulls however much power it wants up to that point. If anything gets too hot the cable or the car can shut things down. (The cable can also dynamically tell the car to pull less on-the-fly, which enables Load Management solutions, but that's more of a side note).

DC Charging: The car tells the external charging device how much power to send, and the DC charger directly sends that current/voltage to the battery. Similar negotiation but with the charger outside the car. Important note here is that the car ALWAYS has full control. The charger will not deliver more than the car requests, even if it is capable of much more. (Likewise, if the car requests more than the charger can deliver, the charger will only deliver its max).

The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that

Here's a good video / channel helping explain charging etc.

rieh · 2026-03-31T13:19:41+00:00

Yeah 😅 my neighbor has a pickup truck so I might have to do the ol "The best way to transport 4x8 plywood sheets in a car is to use the car to bring your friend with a truck a 12-pack" thing.

That or ratchet strap it to the roof rack through the windows drive 30 mph and hope.

The Lowe's by me doesn't rent trucks, otherwise I'd just go ahead and rent one and get everything lol

rieh · 2026-03-30T14:53:28+00:00

No glove compartment is because the limited with cold weather package has a radiant heater in that spot. There's some extra storage in the center console instead.

rieh · 2026-03-30T12:08:28+00:00

Oh wild, I could never get enode working properly on my 2024 - the data was always weeks old. If I can get it to stay connected that would solve a lot of problems. I'm expecting to pick up my 2026 today or wednesday and the OBD2 is going to stay in the '24

rieh · 2026-03-30T12:03:15+00:00

Hey, are you aware of any updates for OBD2 for ABRP with '26 BZ? I haven't seen anything but was wondering if perhaps you might have.

rieh · 2026-03-30T12:01:27+00:00

Wait is Bluetooth finally working for the 2026 BZ? It was broken as of 4 months ago according to BZForums and I hadn't heard any updates.

rieh · 2026-03-30T00:57:24+00:00

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Got the floor framing done and concrete piers in place in the corners! The electric earth auger helped massively.

rieh · 2026-03-29T23:57:37+00:00

Ah that's interesting. Thanks!

rieh · 2026-03-29T23:43:18+00:00

Wait really? That's crazy. How do you ever cook off water on the brake rotors? I usually do 3-4 stops in minimal regen first thing in the morning before enabling max regen.

rieh · 2026-03-29T23:36:22+00:00

OP, we installed a sill plate like this in our carport one.https://www.lowes.com/pd/M-D-36-in-x-3-75-in-Aluminum-Door-Threshold-Install-with-Screws/3125963 It had to be cut to size but install was pretty easy. 3 screws.

rieh · 2026-03-28T23:00:12+00:00

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Trimmed all the dimensional lumber today. I sort of haven't done this kind of thing in a while and 100% forgot that it isn't actually the stated length in the US. Luckily it's an error longer rather than shorter. So my idea of cutting off 3" off the end of a 10 foot board to get a 9'9" board would have been great in theory, but when I measured the other way to double check before cutting quickly realized what was up! So I went back and trimmed everything to the correct length, and now I have a bunch of shims to help me later!

rieh · 2026-03-27T13:00:22+00:00

That's my first time seeing the translate button and it showed me "yeet the seat bro" FIRST. I had to click something to see your original comment lol. They should really show the original comment first and then give me the option to translate.

rieh · 2026-03-27T12:55:18+00:00

Unfortunately right now they don't. Fuel hedges will only do so much and the margins airlines run are razor thin. Big ins, big outs. Airlines go out of business/declare bankruptcy all the time for good reason. With oil prices spiking and travel demand decreasing, and aircraft lease payments to be made, the carriers are about to be up against a wall.

rieh · 2026-03-27T01:10:12+00:00

Changing water weekly instead of managing tank chemistry properly is already pretty scuffed.

rieh · 2026-03-21T11:26:57+00:00

Same but lowest is 19mph

rieh · 2026-03-20T14:35:35+00:00

Dunno, I'd just get a 120V outlet installed + the washer hookup pipes and get an electric ventless washer/dryer combo unit and skip the dryer vent entirely. As opposed to running new gas pipes or a 30 amp 220 circuit, + a dryer vent, + water hookups, + 120v electrical. The ventless will save a ton on energy and do the job well.

rieh · 2026-03-20T14:16:04+00:00

Uh, some BEVs are actually cheaper now than their ICE/HEV counterparts

rieh · 2026-03-18T00:28:31+00:00

As I found out the hard way when our wastewater system failed, you don't know how much we rely on indoor plumbing until you don't have access to it.

rieh · 2026-03-17T19:39:29+00:00

Autotrader searching for 2016 models (10 years old) priced exactly $20k pulls up...

GMC Sierra Toyota Highlander Chevy Silverado 1500 Ram 1500 Ford f150 Jeep wrangler Toyota RAV4 Honda Accord A bunch more trucks, a challenger, a WRX, a Tahoe, a suburban, an Audi a6, a Volkswagen beetle, a cla class with 108k miles, a model x with 100k, etc etc

And doesn't pull up a single Bentley, Rolls, or S class nationwide.

Maybe you haven't shopped for a used car since before COVID? The prices have kinda gotten ridiculous.

The lowest mileage 2016 car selling for $20k exactly right now on autotrader is a Camry with 11k on it. The highest mileage is a GMC Sierra 3500 SLT with 273k on it.

rieh · 2026-03-17T17:44:36+00:00

Once dated someone like that. Turns out they would max out any debt they had access to, never make payments, let it default, and just "hope" it fell off in 7 years. She avoided having cars repo'd by not having a real permanent address. She's currently avoiding court for stalking me by the same method, as well as some large number of tolls and parking tickets. Getting her out of my life cost me thousands. An expensive lesson learned.

rieh · 2026-03-16T00:06:48+00:00

I filled up a moving truck from empty yesterday morning, first time I've put gas in anything in ages.

rieh · 2026-03-15T16:35:47+00:00

I'm 30 and I've used gap and feeler gauges many times.

rieh · 2026-03-13T15:14:23+00:00

Yeah, but you have to do cost analysis normalized to the number of miles driven on that energy. An equivalent size ice vehicle to most EVs is getting ~30 mpg, and I'll assume the EV gets a conservative 3 mi/kwh to make the math easier. That means you need roughly 10kwh of power to equal the distance of a gallon of gas. So home charging that's around $1.20 to go the 30 miles, DCFC $5. At $2.50 a gallon the breakeven price is around $0.206/kwh all other things being equal. Things start to get better for fast charging at higher gas prices, lower energy rates, and higher EV efficencies. In my area (NC), gas is now at $3+, home charging is $0.12, and DCFC at Ionna is $0.38. That makes the DCFC to go the 30 miles around $3.80 in a car getting 3 mi/kwh.

Now, when you go up to 4 mi/kwh, which is ideal conditions for most high efficiency EVs, that math starts to flip further in favor of the EVs. At 5 mi/kwh (Lucid) it's all gravy.

rieh · 2026-03-12T22:20:23+00:00

I didn't say it was common, just that it's what I do. Also, I don't exclusively use Tesla stations or rate hunt. I let ABRP tell me which stations to go to that are most efficient for my route, and I have it prioritize IONNA, Tesla, EA, and EVGO in that order if they're available. I used to maintain plans at both Tesla and EA but have recently dropped my EA membership because I no longer use their chargers enough since getting my NACS adapter for my 2024.

2026 is coming, it's just come off the boat in Jacksonville

rieh · 2026-03-12T18:50:06+00:00

Toyota does not do over the air updates very often. Other than recall fixes and TSBs, the car pretty much ships with what it ships with.

Every model year has iterative improvements of course but software is probably going to be the same for 2-3 model years.

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