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What was Elon thinking? How do you sell an EV yet provide no means to charge it?
Oh wait – you can buy the Gen2 UMC from the Tesla Shop for $550.
But it only has 10A and 15A tails and it is only single phase.
So for charging at home on residential 10A (or 15A) power-points it is probably OK if you can charge for extended periods of time, e.g. overnight or over the weekend.
One day you decide to go on that trip to your favourite camping spot, and you know you have to stop and charge along the way.
Plugshare shows you several 3phase locations, but you’re not sure if they are 32A or 20A.
You have your Tesla Gen2 UMC ($550) and now you need to add the 32A 5pin UMC tail ($175) and the 20A 5pin UMC tail ($175) to guarantee you can charge at any three phase location.
Total investment – $550 + $175 + $175 = $900 (or $1,010 if you opted for 1m long) and you still have single phase charging.
The unicharger11kW is 3-phase. The speed boost from single phase to 3-phase should not be under-estimated, it is approximately a 50% increase.
Think of it as shortening the time spent charging by a third, i.e. instead of charging for 6 hours now you’re done and dusted in 4 hours.
When you’re charging on the road in the outback you want to be off the road by sundown, so every minute counts.
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