[mikeyouse]

Nearly all US homes have 240V to the electric panel, and some have it for specific places in the house (though many places are almost entirely gas dryers/ovens), but you would need a special outlet run to charge your car at 240V since almost all regular receptacles are 120v. Even the heavy duty receps in garages and utility spaces are most often just 20A/120V instead of the standard 15A/120V.

Quotes for a new 240V line are often >$1K which is affordable in the context of a household improvement but not exactly pocket change.

[irishcoffee]

I've run 2 different 240v lines in my house, to code, for the cost of the wire and the breaker. It isn't hard. :)

[mikeyouse]

I’ve done the same, ran a new 100A feed to a subpanel by the pool as well.. but that’s probably 1/100 home owners comfortable with doing so?

[irishcoffee]

I’m a huge advocate for discouraging learned helplessness. I’m not special, I can run wires and connect them properly, I can do brakes/calipers/plugs on a car (and a lot more, self-taught, but anyone has the ability to do those).

When you realize as a software person everyone thinks what you do is black magic (someone told me that today actually, and I told them I could teach them if they wanted to learn), and then you realize that thinking of wiring, plumbing as black magic isn’t true, a whole world opens up.

It’s liberating really, I highly encourage everyone to try and learn these skills.