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Old 09-02-2016, 06:58 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Josh (PA) View Post
Do you need anything special to plug it in?
I was curious so did some searching. Appears the car comes with a 120V charging cable that just plugs in to a regular household outlet. Considering the battery is only 7kWh, and that 120V outlets put out about 1kW continuous, that means the max charging time is 7 hours.

BMWs site also shows a really large (and quite ugly) wall charger is optional. But it's just a standard 240V J1772 connector. BMW says it charges the i8 in 2 hours max, so the i8 must have only a 3.6kW on board charger (1/3 of the Tesla stock charger)...
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