Thinking about installing a home charger but having trouble in justifying a £550 expense for what seems like very little actual benefit...
So I drive my Model 3 sporadically, probably 2 or 3 times a month to go reasonably substantial (200 mile) distances, and so far I've been surviving on the granny charger that gets me 5 miles/hour on the standard mains. This is almost always easily sufficient, if I ever come back empty the times I want to drive more then 50 miles immediately the next day (ie what I can get on a nighttime charge) is basically never. Leaving it on charge for a full day and it's full again.
The only real reason that I can see is a kindof vague threat of danger from the granny charger, every site on the internet seems to say "only for emergencies", but never justifies that. I struggle to believe that this thing is supplied with every car and also potentially dangerous. If it's dangerous I don't want to use it ever, if it isn't then I want to use it all the time.
What do people think - have we created ourselves into a bit of a groupthink myth? Or is there a benefit to dedicated charge point / disadvantage to 10A mains charging that I'm missing?
So I drive my Model 3 sporadically, probably 2 or 3 times a month to go reasonably substantial (200 mile) distances, and so far I've been surviving on the granny charger that gets me 5 miles/hour on the standard mains. This is almost always easily sufficient, if I ever come back empty the times I want to drive more then 50 miles immediately the next day (ie what I can get on a nighttime charge) is basically never. Leaving it on charge for a full day and it's full again.
The only real reason that I can see is a kindof vague threat of danger from the granny charger, every site on the internet seems to say "only for emergencies", but never justifies that. I struggle to believe that this thing is supplied with every car and also potentially dangerous. If it's dangerous I don't want to use it ever, if it isn't then I want to use it all the time.
What do people think - have we created ourselves into a bit of a groupthink myth? Or is there a benefit to dedicated charge point / disadvantage to 10A mains charging that I'm missing?