karamba
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Before starting laughing at my stupid questions please take into account that despite my very advance age I never had a car before. Neither electric nor gasoline. Not because I could not afford it but because of my personal believes. I did all my commute by bicycle and due to changing locations and jobs my commute became longer and longer and I was not getting any younger. So lately my daily commute was about 3 hours both ways. However what set me off was a pretty bad crash that ended in an emergency room, and I took it as a wakeup call to finally settle down and buy a car. So I went to a Nissan dealership today and I guess I was an easy pray for the dealers as I left with the new shiny Leaf.
These guys were of course super nice but I understand they had little knowledge about electric cars. They could not explain me how to use L2 charger at home of even if the car I was getting had 3.7 or 6.6 kw onboard charger.
So here we are: It is 2017 leaf S. From what I see it does have a large connector next to the normal charge connector so it looks like chademo option is there. Also on the LCD panel it says that it will take this much time to charge the car at 6.6kw so i guess it ha 6.6kw charger. The only accessory the dealer gave me is a trickle charger.
My question is: I have 220V in my garage but it will not provide me with 6.6kW. It should be enough for 3.7 KW though. Can I still use it to charge the car? What do I need to buy ? I guess some special cable. I was sure it should come withe the car but it did not.
These guys were of course super nice but I understand they had little knowledge about electric cars. They could not explain me how to use L2 charger at home of even if the car I was getting had 3.7 or 6.6 kw onboard charger.
So here we are: It is 2017 leaf S. From what I see it does have a large connector next to the normal charge connector so it looks like chademo option is there. Also on the LCD panel it says that it will take this much time to charge the car at 6.6kw so i guess it ha 6.6kw charger. The only accessory the dealer gave me is a trickle charger.
My question is: I have 220V in my garage but it will not provide me with 6.6kW. It should be enough for 3.7 KW though. Can I still use it to charge the car? What do I need to buy ? I guess some special cable. I was sure it should come withe the car but it did not.