I wonder if one just transformed the wall voltage to 220 volts, if the charge time would still be about 1/2 time?
Yes using the cars charging cord, you would just have a 220 input instead of 110. L 1 is 110v, so L 2 would 220. I have not as of yet ran into any public chargers with a 220 output. But the car is designed to take either voltage, with it's charging cord, correct?
Do not even think of trying this, unless you want to destroy your EVSE. It needs to be modified to handle 120 or 240 it will not only not work without being modified, you will likely damage/destroy it. That's what EVSE Upgrade - Products does...
Got it, TY That was incredibly dumb of Toyota. They could have easily made a EVSE that was designed for either voltages along with a 220 adapter twist plug.
Yep. When I was at a Leaf meeting w/the Leaf's chief vehicle engineer, Mark Perry of Nissan, Nissan's quality guy and some others, one of the Nissan guys at the podium mentioned they've received EVSEs damaged by people feeding in 220+ volts via cord adapters of some sort. pEEf (who runs evsesupgrade.com and is Ingineer on mynissanleaf.com) immediately remarked "We can fix those!". My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - My L1 ESVE findings..... sorta describes what he had to do to come up with the upgrade. There might be better posts elsewhere on MNL.
Perhaps people jump to the (erroneous and dangerous) conclusion that the EVSE is really 240V-capable, since many electronic devices these days are rated "110-240V 50-60Hz", like cell phone and laptop chargers. These devices are designed to work with 240V systems, as is the standard in most of the world outside of North America, with the use of a plug adapter. Toyota went on the cheap and decided to provide a 120V-only EVSE with the Plug-In (for North America, anyway), even though the charger in the car itself handles 240V just fine.
