Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

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nobbie48 said:
Wouldn't the block heater circuits be the equivalent of a class 1 charger, 8 KMs per hour of charge.

Has winter driving been factored in with the batteries supplying the heat? Heat exchangers are better but a friend got stuck on the 400 and the two and a half hour crawl didn't suck out the watts as much as the heating system.

Air conditioning in summer has a similar effect.
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Most block heaters are 400-1500 watts. I think some (but not all) are thermostat controlled so they have a duty cycle. I would be surprised if every plug in a parking lot could supply 1400 watts continuous. My guess is they are designed for something under 1000 watts per receptacle.
 
Block heater circuits would have to be 120V 15A (or 20A) dedicated circuits with GFCI. Sure, block heaters can duty-cycle or thermostat-cycle, but if you even had two big ones on the same circuit and they thermostat-cycled together, pop goes the circuit breaker!

That's good enough for a Level 1 charger ... but very slow.
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