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A Yellowknife man bought a fully electric truck, expecting to install the 80 amp Level 2 charger it came with at his home. Then he found out he'd need to pay $12,000 to upgrade a transformer in his neighbourhood to make it work.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For anyone not reading the article.

The truck came with an 80 AMP charger (I'm assuming it's the one that also lets the truck power the house).

His house is currently only a 100 AMP service, so he would need to update the panel to 200 AMP.

The transformer his house uses and shared with his neighbors is already at capacity and would need to be upgraded (that's the bulk of the 12k charge)

He ended up installing a different 30AMP charger which is still more than he needs (I believe he also acknowledged that the 15 AMP household outlet would also have worked for his needs)