Had a friend say "you shouldn't buy an EV if you can't pay for the expensive home charging setup, or you will fuck up the battery and the engine".

I admittedly don't understand much about EVs but I have no idea what his argument even was or where he got it from.

March 21, 2026 - 17:11 UTC

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It really sounds absurd on the face of it. Without a dedicated charger you are just charging really slowly ( 10 hours for a full charge) there's nothing that should cause degradation of the chemistry with that method.

I'm thinking it's an adversarial taking point from bad people.
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I was thinking the opposite, that if you didn't have an l2 charger at home you were probably DC fast charging everywhere and that is what would fuck your battery up.

My apartment doesn't have any charging and the parking lot is a hundred feet from any outlets so I'd have to DCFC if I got one
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I thought about it when I saw TC's post because it had that same "you need special premium electricity for EVs" vibe to it lol
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It makes me crazy! I've had an EV since 2015. If you have a GFCI plug in your garage (which you need to be code compliant anyway and if not they're like 15 bucks and can be installed by a non professional) you have a spot to plug in.
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