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[quote=Anonymous]Your buried line plan seems good, but it may be expensive -- what you'll need to run to have level 2 charging available curbside will be 40 or 50 amp wires coming from your house to the curb, and then you'll install the EV charging station at the curb with the little post. So you're probably looking at 25 feet or so of heavy-gauge copper wire inside a weatherproof conduit, and then something to mount the charging station on.

I guess it's possible to mount the charging station on the house and just run a super-long cable underground to the curb, so all you're doing at the curb is plugging in. But you'll have to look around for level 2 charging stations that either have cords long enough to do that or allow you to swap in longer cords.

The PP who mentioned cable width is right, too -- level 2 charging cords are about as thick as a garden hose, so it may be harder to manage than you have in mind. And you'll probably want to get a charging station that you can lock with an app to prevent other people from parking and charging there during the day, though that sort of seems unlikely at the moment.

One middle ground could be to install the charging station on the house and get an extra-long cable to run to the car -- but only have it extended all the way across the yard when you're charging. We charge our car about once a week, at night; there's no worry about running it over with a lawnmower if you don't use it all the time. [/quote]

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