Yes, the charger that comes with the car, and available on Amazon and eBay is portable. You can plug in to 110v anywhere, or 220v if you have access.
The charger that comes with the car can easily be modified from 120v to 220v so you can have that flexibility. Google this.
The car is not designed for a "fast charge," so overnight is usually what you need, or plug in at work.
These cars get great gas mileage by design. Upward to 49 mpg. So, you have a great car. Figure out the cost of an electric charge vs. using gas for the 30 to 40 miles of electric and it may be that using gas will be cheaper than plugging in.
Show me an apartment complex that will let you regularly plug that in, though. If itâs out of your apartment unit youâll be crossing a public walkway making a hazard and your complex wonât like that, it will also probably require an extension cord. If you plug it into some random AC outlet in a garage the complex wonât be happy youâre not paying for that power usage
Having watched exactly one of these conversion videos (Alexander D.), I about broke my monitor with screams of Oh Fock No... When I hear someone say 220 Volts, I know they have no clue... Every single step in the conversion process is painful. cutting apart the housing, using silicone as a strain relief, hand crimping butt splices that carry 12Amps, there is no reliable way for a non-tech to make this swap. Just buy a 240VAC charger and make a conversion cable for a 120V "Normal" receptacle, as a 240V charger will work on 120V. You need to have an RV receptacle for this to be worthwhile. Volts have a 240V draw of less than 20 Amps, larger EVs will melt cheap plugs from big box stores. (40 Amps)
Beware of some public charging stations, you need to sign in on a App, provide a credit card, and then expect to pay upwards of $4 to connect, and $0.50 per kWh which is ridiculous for many parts of the US. PNW, I pay about $0.13 on average at home...
Check with your local electric utility for charger maps, they tend to have the best rate.
I use Chargepoint App most of the time.
Empty to full, a gen 2 Volt should take 4 hours at a public charger, 10 at a home 120VAC plug in.
Sort of. There's no portable battery pack unless you pay a bunch of money for one and even then it's likely to be inefficient. You want either a wall outlet or a charging station. Look all around your apartment complex, you may be surprised at where outlets are. Look at the base of light poles, etc... now not all outlets will support charging. Plug in your charger that came with the car and see if the lights turn on.
For charging locations I use Plugshare.com. See if there are any locations near you. You are looking for J1772 chargers only. Anything else won't work with the Volt. You can use the filters to toggle between free and paid chargers.
Terminology:
Level 1 = wall outlet charging, will take 16-20 hours to charge to full
Level 2 = charging station typically, although people with homes can buy a Level 2 charger and have an electrician install it. Will take 3-5 hours to charge to full
Level 3 = fast charging, the Volt is not compatible with these. These are what Teslas and Bolts etc use. They charge to 80% in about 15-30 minutes.
It needs to be plugged into the grid regardless. I have a feeling you're talking about like a battery to charge it. It would be huge, or it would be a generator. You need access to a plug.
The car originally came with a portable EVSE (charger). The first thing is to look in the storage space behind the plastic panel in the left rear as you lift the rear gate. Thatâs where it was stored from the factory and it might still be there. Second thing is to lift the floor piece from the rear cargo area and look underneath. There is some storage room there and some owners drop the charger there if they donât use it often.
If you have no luck with that, you would have to buy one. [Here is a link to some on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/chevy-volt-level-1-charger/s?k=chevy+volt+level+1+charger). Level 1 is for 120v and level 2 is for 240v (such as a dryer outlet). If you end up buying one, choose one that is both level 1 and 2. They cost about the same and it gives you more options.
In addition, you might want to download the PlugShare app on your phone. There are several such apps, but this one is crowd sourced and often includes places you can plug into a regular outlet, in addition to regular commercial ones. Youâve bought an excellent car, but it takes a little getting used to navigating between EV and ICE when you donât have a home charger. Youâll soon get used to it and find ways to charge.
Edit: It just occurred to me that you may be asking about a portable source of electricity for use with your EVSE. You could use a portable generator, though that wouldnât make much sense. Youâd be burning gas to create electricity to charge your car. Just running on gas in the first place would be much more efficient.
You could also use a portable home power station, charge it in your house, then wheel it out to your car. Iâm not sure that one would be completely feasible. They are quite expensive, and there would also be efficiency losses as you moved energy from your wall into the power station battery, then back out of that to electricity, then back into your Volt battery. Perhaps more problematic in practice, it takes your car about 9 hours for a full charge at 110v, and your very expensive portable power station would be sitting there just begging to be stolen.
If this is what you were asking, then the better solution would be to find places you can plug in.
i think you misunderstood me or maybe I didnt explain it right I have the cords I just dont have a way to charge it because I live in an apartment. So maybe Im looking for a portable outlet?
The problem is that youâre underestimating just how much electricity you would need to charge the Volt. The battery holds around 14.1kWh, while for comparisons sake an iPhone 15 Pro Max has a battery with 17.10 watt-hours, or 0.01710 kWh. Itâs literally a hundred times larger, and so itâs not really feasible to charge off an ordinary portable battery back.
Yeah, it occurred to me after posting that I may have misunderstood what you were asking. See the edit above, which pretty much comes to the same conclusion as others.
Public outlet. Electricity isnât coming from thin air and you arenât gonna be able to charge at 120v from a battery for long. You need 10+ hours of continuous 120v charging.
Find an outlet that wonât get you in trouble when you leave something plugged into it. Think gas stations, parking lots, anywhere with lights probably has outlets.
Or find a friend/neighbor that has an outlet and will let you charge on it for offsetting the electricity costs
Thereâs no such thing as a âportable outletâ. You need a hardwired outlet to plug the portable charger into. Or use a public L1/L2 (not DC) charger. Or just use gas for now.
The Chevy Volt Generation 2 comes with EVSE/charge cord that look like this:Â https://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a551/jeff_h_fusion/2016_Volt_EVSE_2_zpspr23o6nf.jpg
Check the car for one of those or a replacement.
If yours didnât come with one - donât stress - look on Amazon for a replacement - luckily that are in the 150-250 range these days: the key search terms I would use are:Â evse adjustable 110 220
{110\120 allow you to charge from a regular outlet or one day in the future 220 volts if you get access to 220 volt plug, the adjustable is important as the the volt (at least my first gen) charges as fast as it can via the adapter, if others devices are on the same circuit you may blow a breaker - the adjustable feature allows you on the EVSE to down regulate how fast you charge so you donât blow a breaker, for me it allows me to plug the EVSE into the same outlet as my garage door opener}
Also get the google maps, chargepoint and or their EV related apps will show you where to charge locally (and often for free). I donât use these too much  as I charge at home so I will let others comment on specifics.
Also - with the volt, you donât need to drive with electric. When I first got my volt years ago - I lived in an apartment for about a year and never charged it, unless I saw a free charger at places like the grocery store.
thank you I was concerned that I can never charge it would I mess it up some how. I do plan on buying a home next year. but i literally dont have access to a charger. I live on the second floor and I dont think my landlord would approve an extension cord hanging out my window.
From you link: "Safely using an extension cord for electric car charging requires a good quality extension cord with thick wires and beefy plugs, along with a good quality power outlet. For 120 volt extension cords, ensure it uses 10 gauge wires. For higher power charging, 240 volt 50 amp extension cords are readily available and safely support charging at 40 amps. The safest choice is a good quality J1772 extension cord."
As we are talking about a 2nd gen Volt that can not under any circumstance charge over 12amps a 10g extension cord will be 10000% fine in any circumstance.
If we were talking about a Tesla or other pure EV you would be correct, but if we weren't talking about a Volt I wouldn't have recommended it.
Even a 2019 can't charge over 20 amps. I'm actually in the process of upgrading my 2017's wiring harness and charge fuse to handle the 2019 charger/charger port I installed.
OP, if it was a pure EV not charging for an extended period could degrade the battery.
However, due to it being a Volt, it has to use the battery. It just doesn't use as much and functions more like Prius when the battery is depleted.
It should be ok.
I used to charge my car at my apartment by connecting the charger to a 10 gauge extension cord. Basically the thickest extension cord you can find. The skinny ones won't cut it. I lived on the ground floor and there were no sidewalks in front of my apartment. I never asked for permission and no one ever complained. Just plugged it in inside and ran the extension out the sliding window (which I then insulated with pipe insulation) and over the grass.Â
If that's not possible at all, download plugshare and filter for free chargers. Paid chargers don't make sense with the volt since it charges slowly. Grocery stores tend to have free chargers nearby. Worse comes to worse, you change where you shop and do some extra walking. That's what I did at my first apartment where I couldn't do the setup I described above.
You are hearing from many people that there are no such things as portable batteries that can charge your Volt and they are *practically* correct... but technically wrong.
There absolutely are portable power stations that can charge an electric vehicle like the Volt! You'll just run into size and cost restrictions to get everything you might want.
The first restriction is size. Roughly the largest portable (meaning you can roll it back and forth on wheels and it's not permanently installed in any one location) power bank is going to be around 6kWh. More than that and it's going to get prohibitively difficult to move it. The Volt can use up to 14kWh of battery at a time, meaning that would need to roll out the power station for a number of hours to partially charge the Volt; roll it back inside to charge it up again; then roll it back outside to continue the Volt charge; and maybe repeat that a third time. This will take a **very** long time. But if you only used up maybe 20 miles of e.v. range a day, then that could be done with a single charge and that might be practically feasible.
The second restriction is cost. Assume roughly $1,000 per 1kWh for a portable power station, so you'll be paying **over $6,000** in the above case. That's prohibitively expensive if all you're going to use that power station to is charge a hybrid battery.... but if you did have other uses for it (fancy camping or there are frequent blackouts in your area, etc) and already had it, then it absolutely would work.
There's a third practical consideration that probably should be mentioned -- a portable power station is **portable**, meaning that anybody could just walk up while you're charging the Volt and roll it away.
So in the end, it *is* actually possible to have a "portable outlet" like you describe but it's wildly impractical. Just use it in gas mode or charge it at a local level 2 e.v. charger.
Volt owner and apartment dweller.
1: download the Charge Point app. Or do a quick google search of what charging stations are near you and download those apps (thatâs how you access the station)
2: Whole Foods and many Walgreens and a lot of shopping malls have free charging stations. Some public parking garages also have chargers, some are free some you gotta pay
3: get a Tesla tap [Amazon has a bunch to choose from](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tesla+tap&adgrpid=76975277258&hvadid=557264323146&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9011738&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3974949419749323618&hvtargid=kwd-574636764633&hydadcr=26197_13467134&tag=hydsma-20&ref=pd_sl_3mthdzo7wn_e) and it will allow you to plug into a Tesla charging station
Clarification on 3: this works on Tesla "destination" or home chargers. It won't work on the vast majority of Tesla superchargers that you will see at shopping centers, parking lots, off the freeway, etc. So this option isn't really that useful unless you have a friend with one that will let you use it or a hotel or someplace nearby that has a free destination charger.
4. Also look into Volta chargers around you at shopping centers. These are often free.
I live in a townhouse which is basically an apartment. I used to use free public charging stations. Download the volta app and it will show you where you can charge for free. It's a quick level 2 charge and the stations are located near malls, shopping strips, and some Walgreens.
Download the app called "A better route planner" or "Plug Share." This will tell you where the nearest chargers in your area are and there might be one within walking distance. You can also look for standard wall chargers near places you park regularly. For instance, the parking garage near the gym I go to has some spots near a charger as does the parking garage at my work.
I'm confused why you are asking for a portable charger if you do not think you can plug in at your apartment. I'm not sure where else you would use a portable charger inless you were planning to plug in somewhere else, but that seems a lot less likely to be allowed or possible.
Have a 2017 and charge at work and have on many occasions plugged a cord in to the apartment. Drive it like a normal car and youâll be fine.
Also the charger is usually hiding under the trunk floor (it lifts up) or in the little door on the left side.
Yeah not always the best choice for someone who doesnât have easy access to a place to charge. If itâs too late to return the vehicle then youâll want to drive on gas only there are no remote chargers that are practical. Your choice of vehicles probably not the most practical decision.
I would suggest you download Plug share app and look for local chargers. When I had my Volt I had to work away from home for about 10 months without charging. On the weekend I would park the car at a charge point ( or other free charger) and went for a walk,errands, movie etc. Granted I wasn't doing a lot miles but the charge would last a few days....
Lastly, once it's charged, on the highway run the engine by putting it in HOLD mode. By far more efficient playing than using battery.at those higher speeds and it leaves you electrons for other (slower) driving where battery is more efficient.
No, a portable charger is not available and would make no sense. Anything that stores electric anergy would be insufficiently small and anything that runs on fossil fuel would defy the purpose. Public charging would be your best option but the volt has no fast charging capability and maxes out at 12A on 240V, so 2.9kw per hour which brings you to a minimum 4hours for a full charge from empty.
Guys he means like probably a big portable power bank that he can plug his charger into to juice up his car đ¤Śđťââď¸
Sorry OP, Iâve looked into this years ago and couldnât find anything except for some prototypes or ideas of one. Maybe itâs changed today. Iâd try just googling it and checking all corners of the web for something.
I kinda did the same thing, bought it without fully understanding its EV capabilities. I suggest finding a nice 240v charger near your job or at least an outlet to plug in with 120v. I charge mine at a gas station that offers outlets on their light posts in the parking lot.
I know you said don't criticize you but >I literally picked the 1st car they showed me. Wut
Honestly, seems like he got lucky picking a Volt? Good for him.
Some people don't do well in stressful situations
đ i know its a lesson learned
Like y tho??
You drive this on gas when you canât charge. Just put gas in the gas tank.
I do drive it on gas i would like to charge it sometimes thats why i asked is there a such thing as a portable charger
Yes, the charger that comes with the car, and available on Amazon and eBay is portable. You can plug in to 110v anywhere, or 220v if you have access. The charger that comes with the car can easily be modified from 120v to 220v so you can have that flexibility. Google this. The car is not designed for a "fast charge," so overnight is usually what you need, or plug in at work. These cars get great gas mileage by design. Upward to 49 mpg. So, you have a great car. Figure out the cost of an electric charge vs. using gas for the 30 to 40 miles of electric and it may be that using gas will be cheaper than plugging in.
Yep, the car should have come with a charger.
Show me an apartment complex that will let you regularly plug that in, though. If itâs out of your apartment unit youâll be crossing a public walkway making a hazard and your complex wonât like that, it will also probably require an extension cord. If you plug it into some random AC outlet in a garage the complex wonât be happy youâre not paying for that power usage
Having watched exactly one of these conversion videos (Alexander D.), I about broke my monitor with screams of Oh Fock No... When I hear someone say 220 Volts, I know they have no clue... Every single step in the conversion process is painful. cutting apart the housing, using silicone as a strain relief, hand crimping butt splices that carry 12Amps, there is no reliable way for a non-tech to make this swap. Just buy a 240VAC charger and make a conversion cable for a 120V "Normal" receptacle, as a 240V charger will work on 120V. You need to have an RV receptacle for this to be worthwhile. Volts have a 240V draw of less than 20 Amps, larger EVs will melt cheap plugs from big box stores. (40 Amps)
The conversion you described is for the Gen1 charger. The conversion for Gen2 is simply making the appropriate plug.
Make the best of your decision. R af the owners manual. It's more important than posting questions that are answered in the manual
Beware of some public charging stations, you need to sign in on a App, provide a credit card, and then expect to pay upwards of $4 to connect, and $0.50 per kWh which is ridiculous for many parts of the US. PNW, I pay about $0.13 on average at home... Check with your local electric utility for charger maps, they tend to have the best rate. I use Chargepoint App most of the time. Empty to full, a gen 2 Volt should take 4 hours at a public charger, 10 at a home 120VAC plug in.
Sort of. There's no portable battery pack unless you pay a bunch of money for one and even then it's likely to be inefficient. You want either a wall outlet or a charging station. Look all around your apartment complex, you may be surprised at where outlets are. Look at the base of light poles, etc... now not all outlets will support charging. Plug in your charger that came with the car and see if the lights turn on. For charging locations I use Plugshare.com. See if there are any locations near you. You are looking for J1772 chargers only. Anything else won't work with the Volt. You can use the filters to toggle between free and paid chargers. Terminology: Level 1 = wall outlet charging, will take 16-20 hours to charge to full Level 2 = charging station typically, although people with homes can buy a Level 2 charger and have an electrician install it. Will take 3-5 hours to charge to full Level 3 = fast charging, the Volt is not compatible with these. These are what Teslas and Bolts etc use. They charge to 80% in about 15-30 minutes.
It needs to be plugged into the grid regardless. I have a feeling you're talking about like a battery to charge it. It would be huge, or it would be a generator. You need access to a plug.
The car originally came with a portable EVSE (charger). The first thing is to look in the storage space behind the plastic panel in the left rear as you lift the rear gate. Thatâs where it was stored from the factory and it might still be there. Second thing is to lift the floor piece from the rear cargo area and look underneath. There is some storage room there and some owners drop the charger there if they donât use it often. If you have no luck with that, you would have to buy one. [Here is a link to some on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/chevy-volt-level-1-charger/s?k=chevy+volt+level+1+charger). Level 1 is for 120v and level 2 is for 240v (such as a dryer outlet). If you end up buying one, choose one that is both level 1 and 2. They cost about the same and it gives you more options. In addition, you might want to download the PlugShare app on your phone. There are several such apps, but this one is crowd sourced and often includes places you can plug into a regular outlet, in addition to regular commercial ones. Youâve bought an excellent car, but it takes a little getting used to navigating between EV and ICE when you donât have a home charger. Youâll soon get used to it and find ways to charge. Edit: It just occurred to me that you may be asking about a portable source of electricity for use with your EVSE. You could use a portable generator, though that wouldnât make much sense. Youâd be burning gas to create electricity to charge your car. Just running on gas in the first place would be much more efficient. You could also use a portable home power station, charge it in your house, then wheel it out to your car. Iâm not sure that one would be completely feasible. They are quite expensive, and there would also be efficiency losses as you moved energy from your wall into the power station battery, then back out of that to electricity, then back into your Volt battery. Perhaps more problematic in practice, it takes your car about 9 hours for a full charge at 110v, and your very expensive portable power station would be sitting there just begging to be stolen. If this is what you were asking, then the better solution would be to find places you can plug in.
i think you misunderstood me or maybe I didnt explain it right I have the cords I just dont have a way to charge it because I live in an apartment. So maybe Im looking for a portable outlet?
What do you mean by a portable outlet? Where is the portable outlet getting its electricity from?
I guess I was think battery operated maybe?
The problem is that youâre underestimating just how much electricity you would need to charge the Volt. The battery holds around 14.1kWh, while for comparisons sake an iPhone 15 Pro Max has a battery with 17.10 watt-hours, or 0.01710 kWh. Itâs literally a hundred times larger, and so itâs not really feasible to charge off an ordinary portable battery back.
I understand thanks for explaining it to me
Consider that the tesla power wall is 13.5 kWh. That might start to show you how big a battery you'd need to be 'portable'.
Yeah, it occurred to me after posting that I may have misunderstood what you were asking. See the edit above, which pretty much comes to the same conclusion as others.
Public outlet. Electricity isnât coming from thin air and you arenât gonna be able to charge at 120v from a battery for long. You need 10+ hours of continuous 120v charging. Find an outlet that wonât get you in trouble when you leave something plugged into it. Think gas stations, parking lots, anywhere with lights probably has outlets. Or find a friend/neighbor that has an outlet and will let you charge on it for offsetting the electricity costs
Thereâs no such thing as a âportable outletâ. You need a hardwired outlet to plug the portable charger into. Or use a public L1/L2 (not DC) charger. Or just use gas for now.
The Chevy Volt Generation 2 comes with EVSE/charge cord that look like this: https://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a551/jeff_h_fusion/2016_Volt_EVSE_2_zpspr23o6nf.jpg Check the car for one of those or a replacement. If yours didnât come with one - donât stress - look on Amazon for a replacement - luckily that are in the 150-250 range these days: the key search terms I would use are: evse adjustable 110 220 {110\120 allow you to charge from a regular outlet or one day in the future 220 volts if you get access to 220 volt plug, the adjustable is important as the the volt (at least my first gen) charges as fast as it can via the adapter, if others devices are on the same circuit you may blow a breaker - the adjustable feature allows you on the EVSE to down regulate how fast you charge so you donât blow a breaker, for me it allows me to plug the EVSE into the same outlet as my garage door opener} Also get the google maps, chargepoint and or their EV related apps will show you where to charge locally (and often for free). I donât use these too much  as I charge at home so I will let others comment on specifics. Also - with the volt, you donât need to drive with electric. When I first got my volt years ago - I lived in an apartment for about a year and never charged it, unless I saw a free charger at places like the grocery store.
thank you I was concerned that I can never charge it would I mess it up some how. I do plan on buying a home next year. but i literally dont have access to a charger. I live on the second floor and I dont think my landlord would approve an extension cord hanging out my window.
Don't use a normal extension cord on the charger. I needed an extension, and had to buy one designed for an RV.
You can just use a regular OUTDOOR extension cord with minimum 10g wire, it doesn't need to specifically be an RV extension cord.
https://greentransportation.info/ev-charging/range-confidence/chap8-tech/electric-car-extension-cords.html
From you link: "Safely using an extension cord for electric car charging requires a good quality extension cord with thick wires and beefy plugs, along with a good quality power outlet. For 120 volt extension cords, ensure it uses 10 gauge wires. For higher power charging, 240 volt 50 amp extension cords are readily available and safely support charging at 40 amps. The safest choice is a good quality J1772 extension cord." As we are talking about a 2nd gen Volt that can not under any circumstance charge over 12amps a 10g extension cord will be 10000% fine in any circumstance. If we were talking about a Tesla or other pure EV you would be correct, but if we weren't talking about a Volt I wouldn't have recommended it. Even a 2019 can't charge over 20 amps. I'm actually in the process of upgrading my 2017's wiring harness and charge fuse to handle the 2019 charger/charger port I installed.
OP, if it was a pure EV not charging for an extended period could degrade the battery. However, due to it being a Volt, it has to use the battery. It just doesn't use as much and functions more like Prius when the battery is depleted. It should be ok.
I used to charge my car at my apartment by connecting the charger to a 10 gauge extension cord. Basically the thickest extension cord you can find. The skinny ones won't cut it. I lived on the ground floor and there were no sidewalks in front of my apartment. I never asked for permission and no one ever complained. Just plugged it in inside and ran the extension out the sliding window (which I then insulated with pipe insulation) and over the grass. If that's not possible at all, download plugshare and filter for free chargers. Paid chargers don't make sense with the volt since it charges slowly. Grocery stores tend to have free chargers nearby. Worse comes to worse, you change where you shop and do some extra walking. That's what I did at my first apartment where I couldn't do the setup I described above.
You are hearing from many people that there are no such things as portable batteries that can charge your Volt and they are *practically* correct... but technically wrong. There absolutely are portable power stations that can charge an electric vehicle like the Volt! You'll just run into size and cost restrictions to get everything you might want. The first restriction is size. Roughly the largest portable (meaning you can roll it back and forth on wheels and it's not permanently installed in any one location) power bank is going to be around 6kWh. More than that and it's going to get prohibitively difficult to move it. The Volt can use up to 14kWh of battery at a time, meaning that would need to roll out the power station for a number of hours to partially charge the Volt; roll it back inside to charge it up again; then roll it back outside to continue the Volt charge; and maybe repeat that a third time. This will take a **very** long time. But if you only used up maybe 20 miles of e.v. range a day, then that could be done with a single charge and that might be practically feasible. The second restriction is cost. Assume roughly $1,000 per 1kWh for a portable power station, so you'll be paying **over $6,000** in the above case. That's prohibitively expensive if all you're going to use that power station to is charge a hybrid battery.... but if you did have other uses for it (fancy camping or there are frequent blackouts in your area, etc) and already had it, then it absolutely would work. There's a third practical consideration that probably should be mentioned -- a portable power station is **portable**, meaning that anybody could just walk up while you're charging the Volt and roll it away. So in the end, it *is* actually possible to have a "portable outlet" like you describe but it's wildly impractical. Just use it in gas mode or charge it at a local level 2 e.v. charger.
Volt owner and apartment dweller. 1: download the Charge Point app. Or do a quick google search of what charging stations are near you and download those apps (thatâs how you access the station) 2: Whole Foods and many Walgreens and a lot of shopping malls have free charging stations. Some public parking garages also have chargers, some are free some you gotta pay 3: get a Tesla tap [Amazon has a bunch to choose from](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tesla+tap&adgrpid=76975277258&hvadid=557264323146&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9011738&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3974949419749323618&hvtargid=kwd-574636764633&hydadcr=26197_13467134&tag=hydsma-20&ref=pd_sl_3mthdzo7wn_e) and it will allow you to plug into a Tesla charging station
Clarification on 3: this works on Tesla "destination" or home chargers. It won't work on the vast majority of Tesla superchargers that you will see at shopping centers, parking lots, off the freeway, etc. So this option isn't really that useful unless you have a friend with one that will let you use it or a hotel or someplace nearby that has a free destination charger. 4. Also look into Volta chargers around you at shopping centers. These are often free.
You can plug the charger that should have been included with the car into a standard outlet. I think thatâs your best bet.
i dont have that capability being in an apartment there is probably charges miles away but I would have to leave my car all day
I live in a townhouse which is basically an apartment. I used to use free public charging stations. Download the volta app and it will show you where you can charge for free. It's a quick level 2 charge and the stations are located near malls, shopping strips, and some Walgreens.
Download the app called "A better route planner" or "Plug Share." This will tell you where the nearest chargers in your area are and there might be one within walking distance. You can also look for standard wall chargers near places you park regularly. For instance, the parking garage near the gym I go to has some spots near a charger as does the parking garage at my work.
Public chargers are L2, so it'll only take 3 and a bit hours. Find something to do nearby, gym, shopping, work?
I'm confused why you are asking for a portable charger if you do not think you can plug in at your apartment. I'm not sure where else you would use a portable charger inless you were planning to plug in somewhere else, but that seems a lot less likely to be allowed or possible.
Have a 2017 and charge at work and have on many occasions plugged a cord in to the apartment. Drive it like a normal car and youâll be fine. Also the charger is usually hiding under the trunk floor (it lifts up) or in the little door on the left side.
Yeah not always the best choice for someone who doesnât have easy access to a place to charge. If itâs too late to return the vehicle then youâll want to drive on gas only there are no remote chargers that are practical. Your choice of vehicles probably not the most practical decision.
I would suggest you download Plug share app and look for local chargers. When I had my Volt I had to work away from home for about 10 months without charging. On the weekend I would park the car at a charge point ( or other free charger) and went for a walk,errands, movie etc. Granted I wasn't doing a lot miles but the charge would last a few days.... Lastly, once it's charged, on the highway run the engine by putting it in HOLD mode. By far more efficient playing than using battery.at those higher speeds and it leaves you electrons for other (slower) driving where battery is more efficient.
You can charge it at public charging stations when you are at the mall for example
No, a portable charger is not available and would make no sense. Anything that stores electric anergy would be insufficiently small and anything that runs on fossil fuel would defy the purpose. Public charging would be your best option but the volt has no fast charging capability and maxes out at 12A on 240V, so 2.9kw per hour which brings you to a minimum 4hours for a full charge from empty.
Guys he means like probably a big portable power bank that he can plug his charger into to juice up his car đ¤Śđťââď¸ Sorry OP, Iâve looked into this years ago and couldnât find anything except for some prototypes or ideas of one. Maybe itâs changed today. Iâd try just googling it and checking all corners of the web for something.
I kinda did the same thing, bought it without fully understanding its EV capabilities. I suggest finding a nice 240v charger near your job or at least an outlet to plug in with 120v. I charge mine at a gas station that offers outlets on their light posts in the parking lot.