Charging At Home Question

I just had the Lucid Home charger installed by an electrician recommended by Qmerit. I highly recommend this process as they were reasonably priced and far more knowledgable about the whole process, as some home electricians aren't familiar with EV electrical requirements. Qmerit chose a nearby electrical contractor that does large scale EV installations, industrial electrical work and home electrical work which made me confident that they know what they were doing. Also recommend watching the "State of Charge" channel on Youtube which is a good guide on best practices for charging EVs.

I have a 200 Amp panel and had a 100 Amp breaker installed (only using about 40 Amps peak from my existing household usage). This is the standard for an 80 Amp service for the peak capacity of the Lucid Home charger. The charger is solid and safe and I get about 18 Kwh peak output. This has stayed fairly constant for a 4-5 hour charge time. I haven't tried to charge it from 10% or less to full yet only because I still have the free charging benefit at Electrify America.

What reduces the risk is to have properly sized copper cabling, proper cable management (e.g conduit) and wired installation to the charger. I read in a number of online guides that many of the dryer style plugs are not rated to handle continuous 80 amp current for extended durations and can melt or burn due to the amount of heat produced. Also making sure the wire lugs are properly torqued on the charger avoids any loosening of the contacts due to heat expansion or contraction.

I installed the Lucid charger myself and it works perfectly. I used all the recommended cabling, breaker and termination ends, and followed all the local codes.

It was a pain in the ass to install myself, but I did save about $1,500.

I had a friend help with the installation. I'm not sure if I could have done it on my own. That damn 2 gage wire and conduit are heavy as hell and holding it up while trying to mount it to the wall would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible to do solo.

Running that charger at max 80 amps gives 80 miles/hr, and the convenience makes it all worth while. Plus the charger looks cool!

navman said:

I am using a regular wall charger outlet similar to Dryers (see image)

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Looks like a NEMA 14-50. 50A breaker / 40A usable