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Dang I want to get another one to put on my wall because it looks so damn cool.
Does this mean out of control inflation is over? Prices are actually coming down??
My thought has always been that Tesla loses money or simply breaks even on sales of the wall connector. They don't need to make money off of it and they want people to use it instead of a 240v outlet setup.Dang I want to get another one to put on my wall because it looks so damn cool.
Does this mean out of control inflation is over? Prices are actually coming down??
That 24 foot cable has more than $100 of material in it alone...Juice Box and all the other brands of EV chargers people use cost far more than $500 also I'm pretty sure. You also have to account for shipping and distribution costs as well.
Teslas are reasonably priced compared to other EVSEs, but they're all quite a bit more expensive than they need to be. The pricing is largely dictated by electrical installation costs being fairly expensive (making the cost of the evse itself relatively meaningless) and there being incentives on many chargers on top of that. Furthermore, EVs that can charge at higher rates tend to be fairly expensive -- not the most price sensitive customers. So there's room to overcharge. If nothing else, it should be plainly obvious that the Gen 3 chargers cost less to make than the Gen 2, and Tesla did not drop the price when making that change.
Because Tesla engineers understand that length matters, and at 25 feet or less you do not need the same spec as the NEC code for electricians requires. It is an engineered item to its own needs, and not subject to the generaly over spec'ed all purpose code electricians are required to follow. If you look at wire specifications you will find that 48 amps can be safely run on a thinner wire than 6 or 8 gauge in a correctly engineered product.
This is interesting; please provide your source so I can read up further. Thanks
There are loads of sites, including those from wire manufacturers that will state the specs for various type of wire. You might find it here:
www.electricaltechnology.org
Because NEC applies to building construction, not necessarily the devices that plug into it. When you have a known specifications of a wire (not just length and gauge, but insulation type, manufacturer, number of strands, etc), installed using known contacts inside a known environment, you can much more precisely calculate the heat generated. And obviously they test their designs before selling them.
