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Everyone that sells a hybrid or EV tends to include an EVSE that will plug into the power sockets available in the home country. In the USA, that's a 120vac/15A plugged device. BMW will be glad to sell you one of their level 2 devices, but nobody gives you one for free. Some places, with rebates and incentives, it can be close to that, but that's a function more of local government.
BMW could have included a higher capacity on-board charging circuit...they have them in their EVs (my i3 has essentially two of the modules the 45e has to double the power in capacity), but they didn't seem to feel it was justified as most places in the world can recharge fully overnight with a level 2 device. You'd have to go back about 150-years to find why the US went with 120-vac versus the 220-240 most of the rest of the world chose. We're not changing!
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