On 23 Nov 2014 at 12:32, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > That is the Census bureaus' number of single-family-DETACHED homes and > every such home either has an outdoor outlet, a garage outlet or some > other outlet trivial to use to maintain over 50 miles a day of EV > range.
Point taken, but with a caveat. The NEC now requires properly protected outdoor 120v receptacles, but it wasn't always so. I've lived in old houses that had no easily accessable outdoor receptacles at all. The only way to get power outside was to drop an extension cord through a window or screw an adapter into the porch light. The first isn't a great answer in the winter, and the second limits the power you can draw: IIRC, the adapter I had was rated for 660 watts, and most outdoor lights share 15a lighting circuits with several other lighting outlets. The house I live in now was built in the 1920s. When I bought it, it did have (badly wired) 120v garage receptacles, but it had no outdoor house receptacles at all until I installed some - including a 240v 20a - in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This doesn't negate your point - it just changes the numers a bit - but just as home charging can be a problem for apartment dwellers, it's not an immediately available option in some older single family houses, either. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
