How To Set Up 220v Outlet

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My work facility has agreed to gear up a parking spot for plug-in EVs and would prefer to install a standard 220V outlet over a 120V one.
How would I plug my car into this? Do I need a new cable or adapter?
Or are we stuck with a 120V outlet?
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Yous would demand a new cable. The one that comes with the auto is 110 simply. Unless they are being generous and too install a level 2 charging station, then that would have its ain cable you plug direct into your motorcar.
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Where can I get such a cable?
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For the time been, your company maintenance dept could likewise provide an 110VAC outlet at the same time and yous will be ready for now and the futurity connections.
At that place's also a company that will modify your Toyota cablevision to handle 240V. I see it discussed some in this thread.
I'd wonder if there are incentives that would brand it fairly inexpensive for your employer to install a J1772 charger.
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I've been searching for these, but didn't encounter any skilful incentives. I have a harder instance in that I'm the only person with a plug-in vehicle at my company so far.
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Check with the company that supplies power to the building.
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I think thats the route I'd take if I were in delz's shoes.
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if you accept your cable coverted to 240v, i recall you will need 240 at home as well, unless it will do both after the conversion? only you will charge in half the time.
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Once converted it works on 120V or 240V, y'all just demand a $xv cable adapter to utilize it with 120V...
Are yous saying that if you lot put 220 to the standard box and cable it can not handle that? I thought the car could take either voltage. On a coincident thread I was just discussing simply transforming the house current to 220.
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the machine tin take it. The OEM adapter cannot. Equally others accept said, information technology needs to be adapted internally to handle 220 volts. And then it volition be able to handle either.
What does the cable adapter do exactly, suit to two 110 legs?
It is strange that this adaptation to either voltage was not built in, or is it the concrete difference in the two types of plugs? Three wire VS two wire?
To be more precise, the OEM EVSE (aka brick that's part of the charging cord set up) tin can't handle 220 volts without changes. Using an adapter and 220+ volts without changes to the brick will blow information technology.
TY, Toyota could have done better there.
Equally could've Nissan. There's been some word on MNL virtually revolving effectually National Electrical Codes equally to why this wasn't done. I wish I could discover the threads... information technology was forth the lines of it being prohibited (?) NEC by to have 208+ volt portable/mobile electrical devices.
I think pEEf (Ingineer) even some argument that our state is afraid of electricity and (IIRC) this the reason for the higher up.

My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - My L1 ESVE findings..... sorta describes what he had to practice to come up up with the upgrade to the Leafage's Panasonic L1 EVSE. There might be meliorate posts elsewhere on MNL.

At the meeting I was at w/pEEf, the Foliage's chief vehicle engineer, Mark Perry and a bunch of other Nissan folks, pEEf himself at the podium expressed his wishes for Nissan to transport w/an EVSE that can handle both voltages and plug into various 208-240 volt sources (eastward.grand. dryer outlets), even though it would put his upgrade businesses out of businesses.

I recollect some of the questions here would be answered by reading the FAQ at EVSE Upgrade - Products.

edit: I recollect these were some of the threads where people were discussing the first topic.
My Nissan Foliage Forum • View topic - Why is the 240V charging station hardwired ? The respond is..
My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - We need a portable 240v EVSE
My Nissan Leaf Forum • View topic - NEC definitely allows cord-and-plug connected 240V EVSEs

edit: To ameliorate my comment about 208+ volt mobile electronics in the U.s., someone else's post reminded me about universal voltage AC adapters and power supplies in computers. Perhaps it has something to do west/amperage since AC adapters and laptop power supplies are pretty depression wattage (and amperage) vs. an EV. Desktop PC ability supplies can get really high though.

However, NONE of these in the United states of america ship with a cord that can plug into a 240 volt outlet (such as one you observe for your dryer).
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The adapter is just to give yous a standard 120V plug on one finish, the other cease is an L6-20R receptacle to connect to the modified EVSE, it'southward simply so you can physically plug it in to a 120V outlet, as the EVSE comes back with a 240V plug on it, after conversion by evseupgrade.com (comes back with an L6-20P male plug)
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TY, It seems all sort of backwards. Should one go the 220 route, at present yous have an actress cord, of lilliputian use.