We are going to stay with French friends dans la compagne next month.
There are no public chargers at all (really!) in the vicinity apart from one Tesla destination charger on the other side of town at a swish restaurant/hotel. We might go there for dinner one evening but we won't be there enough to solve our charging needs by a long shot.
So I will be using the UMC (1st gen with our 2016 MS70D). Our friends have the typical French Type E 16A sockets in their garage (modern new build house less than 5 years old). We need to do a fair bit of driving around while we are there so every watt of battery will be precious.
For this reason and because we expect to be doing more driving in Europe this year, I'm thinking of making up a pair of adapter extension cables to connect to the blue (Commando?) UMC adapter in order to get more than the10A I'll get from the 3-pin 13A UMC plug.
I am aware of the earth polarity vagueness in France, hence the need for two oppositely wired cables. I am also aware that I will have to be careful to reduce the charging current setting in the car from the default 32A.
I know that I need a certain spec. of cabling. The extensions won't be that long - probably no more than 5m.
So my questions are:
1. Is my strategy sensible?
2. I am not expecting 16A to be reliable but I am hoping 13A would be OK - which still represents a very useful 30% increase in charging rate. Is this a realistic assessment?
Any other advice or comments? You're most welcome!
There are no public chargers at all (really!) in the vicinity apart from one Tesla destination charger on the other side of town at a swish restaurant/hotel. We might go there for dinner one evening but we won't be there enough to solve our charging needs by a long shot.
So I will be using the UMC (1st gen with our 2016 MS70D). Our friends have the typical French Type E 16A sockets in their garage (modern new build house less than 5 years old). We need to do a fair bit of driving around while we are there so every watt of battery will be precious.
For this reason and because we expect to be doing more driving in Europe this year, I'm thinking of making up a pair of adapter extension cables to connect to the blue (Commando?) UMC adapter in order to get more than the10A I'll get from the 3-pin 13A UMC plug.
I am aware of the earth polarity vagueness in France, hence the need for two oppositely wired cables. I am also aware that I will have to be careful to reduce the charging current setting in the car from the default 32A.
I know that I need a certain spec. of cabling. The extensions won't be that long - probably no more than 5m.
So my questions are:
1. Is my strategy sensible?
2. I am not expecting 16A to be reliable but I am hoping 13A would be OK - which still represents a very useful 30% increase in charging rate. Is this a realistic assessment?
Any other advice or comments? You're most welcome!