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Originally Posted by jad03060
Everyone in the USA has 15A receptacles...not that many have 20A ones. A device capable of 16A requires a plug that will only fit into a 20A receptacle...so, there would be LOTS of people annoyed when they could not plug it in at all. At least in the USA, it's really intended as an emergency backup, or, say, if you're visiting someone and want to plug it in.
It's not cheap...it's practical. Now, it could have been a 12A device, and they did that on some of their earlier EVs, but if that garage circuit shares power with say the garage door opener, or you plug in a power tool, or even turn on the lights, you'd be much more likely to pop the breaker, so they dropped it down to a 10A device.
The included EVSE, at least in the USA, is only useful in an emergency, or you don't use your vehicle that often, and can wait for it to become fully recharged.
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I could swallow that... if it came with a 3 kW battery. This thing's got 24 and they're bragging about 50+ miles of range in Europe. That's Level 2 territory.