southern CA's raining season is coming; i wonder if anyone ever charge EV outside when there's rain?
donghai.wang
can i charge when there's rain?
Ha, ha. Here in the UK if we couldn’t charge in the rain then we’d hardly ever be able to go anywhere!
You just have to stand over the charge port with an umbrella lol. My wife used a charge station once here in Minnesota when it was -20F and snowing sideways without issue. But that is frozen rain....hmmmmmm 
Absolutely, any level charging (i.e., 1, 2 or 3). You don't have anything to worry about, outside of your actual charger being rated for all-weather use. Our charger is in our garage and the cord regularly runs outside to a car charging, rain or shine.
Connectors are weather rated and no real current flows until the car and charge point have completed a handshake to set limits.
Only issue is how to close the charging port, after it is completely filled with snow. Should have been a heater option on it, and a heater option on the front lamps, and a heater option on the bonnet - In the old ICE cars, snow melted while I was driving because of Motor heat - unfortunately not anymore. Also LED/Laser no heat, I want my good old hot Headlamps back.
Indeed, I would say worth unplugging and closing cover in heavy snow if you don’t need to charge, or if charging required you can get a snow cover for it. It’s normally ok but if you have prolonged snow and it freezes it can become difficult to remove the charge plug and get the cover door closed.
No issue in the rain though.
No issue in the rain though.
Never worry about the weather. My car is under open skies almost all the time and never worried about charging in rain or snow. Never been a problem with any of our EVs or PHEV., four cars in total since 2018. Watertight electric connectors are not rocket science.
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