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zakats t1_j7jjime wrote

A standard 108-120v north american outlet is very weak compared to just about everything else.

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boganknowsbest t1_j7kant1 wrote

Even on a 240v he would only be charging at 2mi/h right?

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stevey_frac t1_j7khymq wrote

The problem here is that a lot of the energy is going to keeping the battery warm enough to accept charge, because they're charging the battery outside, in the cold. Of the 1500 watts from the plug, less than 500 watts is actually going into the battery, with 1000 watts going to heat.

Move up to 3000 watts, and you're still throwing 1000 watts to heat, but 2000 watts will be going into the battery, and your charge time drops to like, 2.5 days instead of 10.

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drweird t1_j7kshis wrote

Actually, assuming the Hummer is correct in its estimation, only 18.79% of the energy cannot be accounted for, and might be heat...?

Given 49pct charge on 250KWh battery, we have 122.5 KWh to charge. Standard 120v outlet has a max utilization of 1500W continuous, regulated by NEC, so the charger maxes out at that; this gives us 1.5KWh/h charging. IEEE has done studies EV chargers and found on average Level 1 charging is 83.8% efficient without heating present. This is not specific to this vehicle, so it's a rough number. Given 83.8% efficiency, our charging drops to 1.257KWh/h. At this rate, we have 122.5KWh / 1.257KWh/h, giving 97.45h. This is 4.06 days. Assuming that the video is roughly 1030AM on Sunday (he says Sunday morning) and we know the charge finish was projected as 1030AM Friday, we can roughly assume a 5 day charge period. 4.06 days being the optimal estimated charge period, and 5 being estimated gives us an estimate that is only 82.12% as fast as we expect. That gives us the unexplained 18.79% slower than expected charging.

I agree that in extreme cold Teslas and such will use heat to keep the batteries warm enough to charge, but at least if we trust the Hummer computer, it isn't cold enough to significantly heat the batteries, if at all. The unexplained slowness could be heating, or an incorrect estimate about the Hummers onboard inverter charging efficiency, or the Hummers ancillary charging equipment like cooling pumps pulling more power than the average car in the IEEE study. OR it could be as simple as the Hummer being wrong about 1030 on Friday.

My 2 cents

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duckduckohno t1_j7lzlau wrote

Kinda. 240V outlets are capable of 30, 40, 50 Amps depending on what wiring/breaker was used.

A standard 120V outlet is 15 Amps.

For safety, you never use the full output of an outlet (-20%).

We can figure out the wasttage (power) by multiplying Volts x Amps

So on a normal outlet you have 120V x 15A x 0.8 = 1.5 kW

His battery is 250 kWh so it would take 7 days to recharge at normal outlet speed.

A 240V outlet on a 50 Amp circuit is capable of (240V x 50A x 0.8 =) 9.5 kW and could recharge his car fully in a little over a day.

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zakats t1_j7kil43 wrote

Charging at 220/240 is more efficient and there won't be as great of a portion of the energy being used for battery conditioning, as pointed out in another comment, so it might be a fair bit faster.

110/120v charging is kind of a joke.

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Rrdro t1_j7kmrsk wrote

Also assuming you are not driving enough to enjoy the battery each day you can probably keep it topped up with a slow charge alone

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