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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by emptyfile on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:01AM (#11753867)
>One of the beauties of EVs is you don't need charging stations >Your car refuels while it's parked in your garage.

So not only do you need to own a charging station you also need a house and a garage, got it.

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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by dragontamer on Monday May 23, 2016 @04:57PM (#11756923)
And then the 240V charger in the garage, in case you want to actually charge your car faster than eight hours. (IIRC, its 72-hours to charge a Tesla on 110V)
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Re:Electric cars are no longer held back by crappy, expensiv... by jjulius on Monday May 23, 2016 @07:28PM (#11757813)
You do not need to own a charging station. My Leaf charges to 100% overnight just fine and it plugs into a standard 110 wall outlet in my house.

You also don't need a garage, as they charge just fine outdoors (been charging mine in my driveway for 1.5 years), but that's just arguing semantics at this point.

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