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220V/15A getting to 100% SOC

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I'm about to do my first trip of any real distance and since I work from home I have only every charged overnight to 80% SOC.

My home setup is 220V/15A (roughly 3.3kw) as I am running off a 20A circuit - this works great for my daily needs.

Planning for my departure time being at 100% SOC, I was wondering how much longer it would take going 80%->100% off AC. Turns out, at "low" current, it seems to be very uniform across the charging range.

Here are the numbers I got the last couple of days charging first night to 80%, then next day after getting back from the gym from 77%->100%

60-80% SOC took 5h 18m (5.3 hours) using 18kwh. 18kwh/5.3h = 3.4kw (3.77%/hour)
77-100% SOC took 6h 48m (6.8 hours) using 24kwh. 24kwh/6.8h = 3.5kw (3.38%/hour)

I was relieved to see on AC that the last 80->100% doesn't slow down line the DC fast chargers.

EDIT: to add the %SOC/hour
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My own experience confirms that. I'm on a hard-wired 48A charger, but same conclusion as yours, i.e., the L2 charging rate is fairly constant, even past 80%, unlike DCFC.
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Should be very consistent. I've had to DCFC on 50kw charger and it held the 48-50kw all the way to 98%. Dropped to ~30-25kw from 99-100.
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I haven't measured it but I've never noticed any slow down in charging on the occasions I've DC charged to 100%.

If you look at the AC charging curve, even at 100% it doesn't drop below about 30kW.
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Similar experience here on a 50AMP circuit for both a I4M50 and Rivian R1S. Doesn't matter just slowly goes about charging. I prefer this than using public chargers, as long as I don't have too.
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I had asked a similar question a while ago and got some conflicting answers. I found my L2 charge rate (11kW) quite flat all the way up until the last minute of charging, then it fluctuated a bit and shut down. I did observe a momentary blip at 80% and it looked like some other control was working from 80-100%, but the rate was still 11kW.


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From 80% to 100% -



The "blip" at 80% -
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... and that drop down to ~3 kW from 8:59 to 9:01 may have just been preconditioning after the charge was complete.
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