Being that this appears to be the EV Pickup thread...
It has arrived... my not-cybertruck.. I give you the Chevrolet Avalanche EV... wait, no, they called it the Silverado EV, never mind.
Congrats!
I didn't know much about the Silverado EV, but it looks like they've done some really cool stuff with it. Then I saw the price tag... Yeeeow! That's pretty close to the Cybertruck Foundation Series price. But everything else looks fantastic! The large frunk, the ability to extend the bed into the back seat of the cab AND the tailgate with the extra bits, the range, the towing capacity all make this a welcome entrant to the EV market.
And in only 3 short days it will have enough charge to drive it again after I brought it home from the dealer.
It arrived early and I didn't even get my 240V outlet installed, let alone the 'real' charger. Need to at least slap the outlet together today.
Is this your first EV? Kinda sounds like it. You don't need to wait until it's full to drive it, you just need enough range to get to the next place you charge. FWIW, my mom bought a Tesla Model Y last year and decided not to add 240V charging. She's using the mobile connector to plug into a 120V outlet that was already in the garage. If you don't drive a lot of miles, it's doable.
That said, it looks like the efficiency of the SilEVrado
is pretty bad - Only 63 MPGe, so it takes 53 kWh to go 100 miles. That means for each hour you're plugged into 120V at 12A, you're getting a hair under 2.5 miles of range. Yikes.
You think GM would include a fancy cable that could actually use my 20A garage circuits? At least they included the 14-50 so once that's installed I can use it.
Normal outlets are 15A, charge at 12A due to the 80% rule. I did find a setting that apparently the truck defaults to 8A... Switched that to 12 and shaved a whole day off the charge.
That is one annoying thing about GM's 120V charging (former Volt and Bolt owner here). It always defaults to 8A every time you plug it into 120V, and switching the setting to 12A doesn't stick - You have to switch it manually every time. That's one thing Tesla got right - Tesla ramps up slowly and pays attention to what it's getting in an attempt to auto-detect possible issues with the plug; if it detects significant resistance or other issues it will automatically limit the charging speed. GM took the easy way out by just always limiting it and not bothering to pay attention, putting the onus on the user to increase it, but it's a pain for the user that way. Luckily, 240V doesn't do that.
+60% is roughly 120kWh, so 24 hours at 5kW.
Needless to say the actual charger is a 80A(19.2kW) on a 100A circuit once it's installed. Which luckily just fits in the load calculation.
Whoa, this is crazy. Per fueleconomy.gov, EPA range is 450 miles and economy is 63MPGe. That's only a 1.87 miles per kWh, meaning they must have a battery that is 240kWh usable.
That is freaking massive, close to double that of the Cybertruck. No wonder it's so expensive!
I am curious... Does it use the SAE-CCS connector, or the NACS connector? If it's SAE-CCS, did they include the NACS adapter with it? (In the image below, SAE-CCS is the big one on the left, NACS is the small one on the right)