EVDRIVER
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harrier said:Both sides of the Charger/Extension cord debate are right, but it is not a meaningless semantic debate (like whether you say "data is" or "data are").
The prices for all of the EVSEs are exorbitant. I am sure that the subsidy, scale issues, and opportunity play a factor, but $2,300 or more is craziness.
When you call it a charger, the price seems more fair, because you imagine all sorts of complicated components like inverters and controllers.
When you recognize it as a gussied-up extension cord with a relay, then it makes it harder for the companies to sell the price.
We are all on the same side here, and we should keep the pressure on AV, Leviton, and the others to produce EVSEs that are cheap enough to be ubiquitous. At the current prices, they just feed the media/social dialogue that the electric car charging infrastructure is too expensive.
Sorry,
data and data are pronunciation differences and are the same, extension cord, charger cord are all fine but it is in NO WAY a charger in any sense and to use that term is confusing and ignorant once one knows better. Call it a charger cord, a power cord, charging cord dock or EVSe but please don't call it a charger as it only confusing people further and spreading ignorant terminology. You certainly don't call a PFC-30 an EVSE, or charge cord or call the Leaf's actual charger the same.