Home Charging

How much charging you actually need overnight, reading your utility's EV and time-of-use rates, and when a plain 120V outlet is genuinely enough.

Home Charging August 22, 2026 EV Rate Plan: Reading the Real Overnight Price A utility advertises 2.2 cents overnight. Stack the riders published alongside it and the number is 6.4. Here is the arithmetic, run on three real tariffs. 13 min read
Home Charging August 21, 2026 How Many kWh Does an EV Need Overnight Your commute, your car's real kWh per 100 miles, and the hours it sits parked decide the circuit. Work it through and the answer is rarely 48 amps. 12 min read
Home Charging August 16, 2026 EV Charger Amps: Why a Bigger One Won't Charge Faster Your wall box is rarely the bottleneck. Your car's onboard charger is. Find its real kW limit before you pay for a 60A circuit you cannot use. 11 min read

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The first charger took a board vote and nine months; the second took a permit, a load calculation, and one afternoon. Tessa Vandermolen kept the paperwork from both installs — applications, the inspector's correction notice, utility EV tariff sheets — and PlugPath is where those documents get explained. She is not an electrician or an electrical inspector, so nothing here is an instruction to wire anything: it is a record of what the code sections, statutes, and forms actually say, each one linked.

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