Evannex & NeoCharge prove you can easily charge your Tesla (or other EV) anywhere!

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2 жыл бұрын

Do you have a new Tesla or other EV, but don't have a good charging solution? Well Evannex and NeoCharge have you covered: as long as you have a dryer in your house, you can easily connect your Tesla/EV to your 240V dryer outlet AND still dry your clothes! This solution--a NeoCharge 240V splitter, plus an adapter and a 30' (9m) 50 Amp cable--is so good that I am going to use it permanently to solve my charging problem in my new house. Here's how to hook everything up, how it all works, and even the best way to use the products. And this will work just as well on your new Tesla, Chevy Bolt, Ford Mach E, Volkswagen (VW) iD3 or iD4, or other EV on the market.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I forgot to mention in the video but you HAVE to set your Tesla charger to 24 Amps max when using this solution (in the car, it's Charging, then look for the amps setting and hit "-" until it gets down to 24 Amps). This is crucial as you are never supposed to draw more than 80% of the rated current (24 = 80% of 30 Amps). For other cars, it's the same deal, just figure out how to set the max current to 24 Amps. So sorry I forgot to mention this crucial point in the video itself!
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@DrKnowitallKnows 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, all, a HUGEly important comment, brought up by Kai C below: I forgot to mention in the video but you HAVE to set your Tesla charger to 24Amps max when using this solution (in the car, it's Charging, then look for the amps setting and hit - until it gets down to 24 Amps). This is crucial as you are never supposed to draw more than 80% of the rated current (24 = 80% of 30 Amps). For other cars, it's the same deal, just figure out how to set the max current to 24 Amps. So sorry I forgot to mention this crucial point in the video itself!

@cumulus888 2 жыл бұрын

Why don't you think about setting the wall charger outside near the circuit breaker when you have the 2nd car? Then you don't need to run 100+ ft line to the garage.

@Dithermaster 2 жыл бұрын

All it takes is forgetting to verify the 24A setting *once* and this is a bad fire hazard. I would not trust the car to remember the 24A setting permanently (a software update or GPS location mess-up could make it forget). I would buy a 14-50 to 14-30 adapter for the end of your extension cable, and the 14-30 Tesla Mobile Connector adapter so the car always knows to only draw 24A. Alternatively, and likely much better, I'd wire the Wall Connector to the 14-50, but set the DIP switches so it only allows 24A draw. If you get the Model 3, you can chain Wall Connectors in a load-share mode so they together won't let the cars draw more than the set current. Perfect solution for two cars.

@kubismatik2 2 жыл бұрын

@@Dithermaster Fire hazard? If the circuit is designed correctly breaker will trip when current is over 80% way before wires start to overheat.

@TheElectricMan 2 жыл бұрын

After 2 years later I'm still happy that I switched to driving electric.

@bluetoad2668 2 жыл бұрын

That was a pretty useful video. I find that it's the home charging setup that a lot of people are confused about.

@The_Bookman 2 жыл бұрын

Bookseller here. Haven't even watched all of the video yet. Just wanted to pause and take this moment to congratulate you on your eminently healthy book-buying propensities. A magnificent example to us all. :)

@randylin1871 Жыл бұрын

Very informative. Thank you! I will probably be replicating this setup as well since I have a similar problem as you.

@joeybagadonuts1206 2 жыл бұрын

Cool solution. Just a word of caution: It may be against your local electrical code to run that wire through a wall. You should still be able to use your ultimate solution...but it might require a little re-work where you have (instead of just punching through the wall) a "pass through outlet" of sorts where you have a male connector on one wall (laundry) , and a female connector on the other side (garage), with a small run of in-wall rated cable between the two. Note...I am not an electrician...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

@nelsongarcia8959 2 жыл бұрын

I was about to make the same comment. That would require a permit and inspection where I live. Even the low voltage wiring (network and audio) that I ran myself throughout my house got a long look by an inspector looking at some other work I had going on. Luckily I knew to use plenum-rated cables, correct color-coded junction boxes, etc.

@NeoCharge_ 2 жыл бұрын

Really really appreciate this video! Happy Charging!

@backcountryFLcyclist 2 жыл бұрын

Great video on what I would never want to do. Pay the money and run the electrical line from a dedicated 60amp breaker from your electrical box and use your Tesla Wall Charger. Having Jim-Bob sledge hammer a hole through your wall was awful.

@tfragia1 2 жыл бұрын

My breaker box was completely full and thought about a splitter box, but it's kind of an expensive single point of failure. I decided to steal my dryer circuit for the car charger and put in a compact 120V electric dryer. This won't work if you have a wife and kids though. For a single guy it works great! 🙂 And if I ever sell my house, it comes with two dryers. 👍

@tylersilcott7910 2 жыл бұрын

Great questions mama! The answers to those questions help Explain it to those that aren’t construction minded.

@jamesdubben3687 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. That's a great side kick you've got there. Great, timely, relevant questions.

@GeeWit 2 жыл бұрын

Electricity is fire in the wire. If you do have a loss related to that "pretty permanent solution", it'll give your insurance an easy out when they send the adjustor and he sees that mess. You might as well bite the bullet at set yourself up with the properly specified and properly located infrastructure for charging for 2 cars. If you were to want to sell that house, you'll need to repair your fire rated wall you penetrated and do a proper electrical installation anyway, so might as well bite the bullet and do it now...

@scavanger1000 Жыл бұрын

I've been using the OEM 120v charger for the past 3.5 years, finally bought a 32amp charger

@michaelharris680 2 жыл бұрын

I had a similar problem.... ran the wire. Installed a dryer plug 14-50 in garage ..it's great! Total cost was 700.00 .. alot of that was because of the wire 300.00... get a cheaper very good electrician.... my plug was well worth it. I'm fully charged in about 5hrs. BTW I'm still using my orignal Tesla chord with the Nema adapter.

@BrianSFischer 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely house!

@mitchellbarnow1709 2 жыл бұрын

A few years ago I purchased that extension cord and all of the adapters from Amazon for half of what Evanex was charging for them. This was before the switching box. I wanted to be able to plug into any type of RV outlets in case I found myself in a bind. The smaller RV's use 30 amp 120 volt plugs and the biggest ones just use MEMA 14-50, but I believe that some parks only have 120 volts because they don't have out of phase power, especially if they are not hooked to the grid.

@dewittbo 2 жыл бұрын

For what it’s worth, my wife and I share a plug between my Model X and her Model 3, just switching between whoever needs it most: her commute is farther, but she has more range. Works fine.

@parkershaw8529 2 жыл бұрын

Dr, those extra non-permanent connecting points you introduced in your solution is concerning. Also, try to get a double GFCI breaker for your dryer circuit.

@jamesbuchanan3439 2 жыл бұрын

Regarding the 24 amp limitation, even if the circuit were a full 50 amp NEMA 14-50 outlet circuit, the Tesla cable will not allow the Model Y to be set any higher than 32 amps anyway, so with the amperage to 24 amps, you will be getting a full 75% of the maximum possible anyway. (This translates into very close to 22 miles of range added per hour, or a nice 80% charge overnight (say, 12 hours).)

@mervynleach1362 2 жыл бұрын

Here in the UK, my 7.2kW charger only requires 6mm2 copper cable (total cable diameter less than 10mm) and a 32A fuseway, but then we do run at 240V

@niklaseklund88 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that setup would be illegal in Sweden. (Not allowed to run electrical wiring like that) We tend to have higher voltage available so this issue doesn't occur as often.

@r.o7897 2 жыл бұрын

Good content!

@kaic9972 2 жыл бұрын

Hello, you may want to lower your charge rate. You have the Tesla mobile connector connected to a 14-50 outlet (it will try to draw 32amps) but the neocharge and your original dryer wall outlet is only rated for up to 24 amps (continuous).

@brianbeasley7270 2 жыл бұрын

Since other people may well use this solution, I completely agree with Kai C. The NEMA 14-50 adapter plug on the Tesla mobile charger tells the unit that it is plugged into a 50 Amp outlet and it will attempt to charge at 32 Amps which is its maximum. This will overload the actual 30 Amp circuit for the dryer which is rated for 24 Amps continuous as Kai states. This is a serious issue since if the breaker doesn't trip, it can overheat the wires with a possible fire in the walls! Yikes. The other way to avoid this issue is to use the NEMA 14-30 adapter with the Tesla Mobile Charger which tells the unit to limit the current to 24 Amps automatically. You would need a different extension cord with a 14-30 male and female plug on each end respectively. You may well have limited the current in your Tesla but anyone trying this with the 14-50 extension cable and adapter should definitely know this is a must!

@DrKnowitallKnows 2 жыл бұрын

Goodness, I totally forgot to put this in the video! I'll add a pinned comment at the top saying this. Thanks for bringing this up!

@capestreasuresPtown 2 жыл бұрын

There is always a way to do the right thing and go electric!

@michaelkeppler6593 2 жыл бұрын

Just hang the cable from the ceiling for easy access, assuming you have enough cable.

@DrKnowitallKnows 2 жыл бұрын

good idea. I could even put a retractable cable to hang it from. Done and done :)

@carlstockmal 2 жыл бұрын

A good "cable guy" can make clean drywall cuts and put in the mounting brackets that allow trim plates to make that installation look great. Here in California, the cable has to be Class 2 and/or Class 3 rated to run through the wall. I've installed thousands of telephone jacks, TV cable outlets, HDMI in-wall cables, and some time ago S-Video, Component Video, DVI, Composite Video + audio, and other cables for projectors, TV's, business telephone systems, computer networks, etc. etc. You're correct, a properly-installed NEC-approved charger cable from your panel to 100 feet away is super expensive.

@nausetneighbors 2 жыл бұрын

The primary and secondary are wrong. You want the washer to be primary. Your car can wait four hours to start charging, your laundry needs to get done while you are around. Do they make the Tesla side as a secondary?

@cleanitup_pls7893 2 жыл бұрын

If there is an electric hot water tank in the garage, you can use that circuit instead of the dryer circuit. That avoids putting hole in the wall.

@CarlWithACamera 2 жыл бұрын

You have exactly the the two cars I’ll own when I return to the US next year. Here in The Philippines I drive a Mazda 2 (smaller than yours but perfect for living on an island with small roads). Mazda and Tesla are, in my opinion, the two best car brands representing ICE and EV.

@parkershaw8529 2 жыл бұрын

And Teslas look like Masada anyway!

@MegaWilderness 2 жыл бұрын

Pity you don't live in a country that uses electricity properly. Time to switch to 220v, while you're about it, try metrication. You start by configuring your instrumentation.

@EAster33 5 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s crazy that the car is the priority clearly in a house the dryer should always be the priority because it would be used maybe 2 to 3 times per week. Where is the Tesla would be charged Because you use it priority because you multiple hours per day. I just ordered a “splitvolt” has the dryer as a priority and I’m excited to test it out. I saw this one also but I see very few times where id need to have 24-30 more miles or wet clothes going to work the next day. Also setting timers and reminders is ridiculous due to the spitter refusing the allow the dryer to be in the top spot/priority

@kennethlau2034 Ай бұрын

What is the brand name and specs of the extension cable? Anyone knows?

@MrArod1207 Жыл бұрын

Can you think of a way that I can use this for 2 electric vehicles and the dryer? Might be asking a lot haha

@GerardPinzone 2 жыл бұрын

The federal tax credit for 30% (up to $1000 for residential) of the cost of purchasing and installing an EV charging station has been extended to 2021. It might make sense to do the electrical work now in case the rebate doesn't get renewed. Your state might also have a tax incentive, too.

@mitchellbarnow1709 2 жыл бұрын

That box is very, very smart, without it your car would try to pull to 32 amps because the mobile charger has the NEMA 14-50 adapter connected to it and that's how it knows how much current to pull! I am very, very impressed! I just noticed that you mentioned setting the amperage correctly in the "show more" tab. People have gotten in trouble from using extension cords like our NEMA 14-50 RV cord, because it bypasses Tesla's built in automatic settings.

@Hoss4Blues 2 жыл бұрын

This install seems a little jury rigged to me. Any electrician looking at this would cringe. It helps to be handy. This job could easily have looked professional but it’s a little late now. Being in a hurry to get something done usually comes back to bite you. Not to be picky, but it looks like you’ve made a lot more work for yourself. Installing a proper junction box in the laundry and one out in the garage isn’t too difficult but the sheet rock repair will take someone with experience, that is unless you don’t care about aesthetics. Great channel by the way.

@PinnacleRespect 2 жыл бұрын

You should reverse into your Garage, much easier to plug in to the car.

@gradmiral 2 жыл бұрын

My Model Y charges at 45 MPH via the Tesla charger on a 60A circuit, so your subtitle correction is accurate.

@richardedwardpay 2 жыл бұрын

Georgia Power off peak is 1.4c per KW.

@brianbeasley7270 2 жыл бұрын

To net it all out, if one drives 15,000 miles per year with 3 kWh/mile consumption (conservative) at that rate, it only costs $70 to drive all year compare to an equivalent ICE at $3/gallon costing $1800! Wow!

@richardedwardpay 2 жыл бұрын

@@brianbeasley7270 plus, I run my dishwasher and clothes dryer after 11pm and my monthly electricity bill is less now then before buying the Model Y.

@tomswiftTTT 2 жыл бұрын

You should come here to California my electricity from PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) in Santa Cruz is $0.51 /kWh from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM and $0.24 for all other times. This situation complements shutting down all of our nuclear plants and replacing them with gas and solar, just like Germany.

@JonathanRootD 2 жыл бұрын

This is going to annoy the hell out of you, having to stop charging your car to dry your clothes lol

@nausetneighbors 2 жыл бұрын

No, it is not a problem. I usually set my Tesla to be ready to go at 6:00 AM which means it starts charging between 2:00 AM and 5:45 AM. I never do laundry at that time.

@PalimpsestProd 2 жыл бұрын

Run the cable across the ceiling and drop down.

@BobbieGWhiz Жыл бұрын

God forbid, if there’s ever a fire, this video will be used against you by your homeowner’s insurance company. As stated by others, you can’t pass an extension cord through a wall.

@parkershaw8529 2 жыл бұрын

I am just lucky and my load center is right inside the garage. But, it's full, so when I buy a Tesla, I will install a sub panel.

@ngchongsin2009 2 жыл бұрын

hello, i understand the solar panel will last for 20-30 years. I assume the EV battery will last for say 10 years. Will it be very damaging to the environment if all this will be dispose after their end of life. How we should best handle this material for the sake for the environment? if you can have a video on this will be very much appreciative.

@tomizatko3138 2 жыл бұрын

That figure of 10 years for Tesla battery … where did you pull it out from?

@ngchongsin2009 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomizatko3138 opps, perhaps that is the wrong assumption. I had thought petrol car and EV have equal lifespan.

@Makatea 2 жыл бұрын

How about drying your laundry outside instead of wasting electricity when sun and wind will do it for free? Also, this kind of extension-cord installation is pretty dangerous, the cable can get kinked pretty easily, your cat could chew on it etc. If you ask an electrician first, what kind of cable and fusebox you need, you can buy cable and box yourself, run the cable and let the electrician only do the termination on both ends. That should be pretty cheap, yet still up to code and you don't need this crappy relay box.

@StevenC1961 2 жыл бұрын

Wow you decided to just go right through a firewall and put it in a KZfaq video

@John-hi2yi 2 жыл бұрын

Watched the Octo valve video the other day and thought it was a poor explanation for how ac works and very little on the O/valve, now this. Glad your happy with it, but sorry to say what a fumbling video.

@philipmitchelmore7293 2 жыл бұрын

Tosca, the only Tosca I know about is Elon’s sister

@DrKnowitallKnows 2 жыл бұрын

hahaha. I bet Evannex's Tosca wishes she was Elon's sister ;)

@laurenwarner9565 2 жыл бұрын

I find it very difficult to understand a simple problem that you are solving with something so utterly complex. Furthermore, it goes against one of the fundamental reasons you bought a Tesla in the first place. First, I have to assume that you have an electric dryer. Second, an electric dryer consumes TONS of electricity. Third, there are heat pump dryers that use a quarter of the amount of electricity and they use a regular 120V outlet. Finally, if you get a heat pump dryer, you don't have to have this silly, complicated device in the first place. Come on man! I thought you were a man of research! First principles! Simple solutions! I also have to agree with some of the other comments. If you're going through fire rated walls with this device, you're asking for big trouble. Get a dedicated line to the garage and make sure it's installed properly. Hell, you could do it yourself with the proper research.

@Rhaman68 2 ай бұрын

Always amazing how people that can afford a Tesla cannot afford a professional electric installation. Kind of puzzling like seeing a Bentley car going thru a fast food drive thru. Sorry, this was the install that should not be.