(-Phil-) via EV wrote:
IMO, you can now buy decent heavy-duty well-constructed J1772 EVSEs for rather low cost, and if you own a Tesla, their wall-connector EVSE is a good bargain for what you get. If you just dropped many tens of kilobucks on a new EV, do yourself a favor and get a decent EVSE. Save the included portable unit for emergencies/travel. The portable units are much less reliable, so if you get a wall-mounted one, you then have a backup should it fail.
That may be true in general, though my own luck has been the opposite. My wall-mount EVSE failed 6 months after I got it, but I'm still using the portable EVSE that came with our 2013 Nissan Leaf every day without problems.
In my 40+ years of EV driving, I've had my share of NEMA-15 (120v 15a) connectors fail; but have never had a NEMA 14-50 failure. I think part of the reason are cheap 120v outlets with push-in wire connections, and that I don't use NEMA 14-50's at even half their rated amps.
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