Very interesting, John
I didn't even know there was an electric Mini. In SA there are quite a
lot of small Oriental electric cars now. Easily charged at home
overnight. Running costa are much less than petrol. Rather impractical
for long distance because there are so few charging stations along the
way. Besides, with all the charging, travelling time is much longer.
Some hybrids too.
In SA the electrical standard has always been 220V with those large 3
pin grounded plugs but now they are going over to 2 pin ungrounded for
most appliances. Dual outlet sockets are the new norm but most people
just use adapters.
Alan C
On 19/08/2026 20:01, John Francis wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 12:42:01PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote:
So where is "here" that you didn't already have grounded outlets? I think
they've been mandatory here in the U.S. since the 1960s (although you were
NOT required to replace existing outlets unless you were re-wiring)
... and a 220V line for a car charger suggests you recently acquired an EV,
so what did you get? ????
I think there are several others who post here occasionally who no longer
use Pentax. I'm not the rule maker, but it seems y'all would/could/should
still be part of the community.
I'm in the US - more specifically in San Jose, CA.We moved from the UK
to the USA (to Nashua, NH) in the late '70s (after a one year assignment
in New Zealand - I was working for DEC in those days, and I took the job
in New Zealand on the condition that DEC would relocate me to the US.
The house we bought was built in the early 1960s, and was only 2-wire.
Over the years we've remodelled parts of the house, rewiring those rooms
(kitchen, bathrooms, ...), and adding grounded outlets, but we still had
2 or 3 rooms left to update, so when we had electricians in to install a
220v line in the garage we also had them take care of the remainder.
We have indeed bought an EV, but it's not our first. We've had a Smart
Car for years, but that car charges up fully overnight using just the
little 120v charger that came with the car. Our latest car is a Mini;
to fully charge that car using the charger that came with the Smart Car
would take somewhere around 30 hours.
More specifically it's a 2024 Mini Cooper SE 2-door. We were originally
planning on buying a current model, but our local Mini dealer happened
to also have the car we ended up with.The only way you can tell that it
isn't brand new is that it came with a little over 4000 miles on the clock.
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