Any suggestions on where to place the EVSE in a standard two-car garage with one EV and one ICE car?
I was originally going to place it right in the center back wall of the garage so it could reach either spot in the future but it seems that the charging cable, at least the one with the portable unit that comes with the car, is just a tad bit too short to reach the charge port on the car that way unless I pull up almost to the wall, and even then it will be kind of hanging in the air which doesn't seem like a good idea. The alternative would be to always back into the spot but it seems like that may be a pain after awhile. I was thinking another option would be to get a short 14-50 extension cable to basically position the portable unit further out into the garage and thus allow the charge cable to reach... the downside there is that if I ever wanted to wall mount a home unit I wouldn't be able to utilize the extension cable, but maybe you can get longer primary charging cables with the home unit? If the portable unit's cable was just like 5 feet longer it would be perfect.
My other option is to put it on the side wall near the front of the garage (near the main overhead door), but on one side it would then be blocking the ICE car (cord would be behind the car to reach the Tesla), and on the other side (where the Tesla parks) it would take a much longer run and conduit to go around the whole edge/two walls of the garage. The easy thinking here would be to just change which car parks in which spot but we have bikes and things hanging to the side of the ICE car and I don't want those so close to my precious Tesla in case of any mishaps
So... not sure if anybody can offer options other than what I've mentioned but just curious as to what everybody else has done.
I was originally going to place it right in the center back wall of the garage so it could reach either spot in the future but it seems that the charging cable, at least the one with the portable unit that comes with the car, is just a tad bit too short to reach the charge port on the car that way unless I pull up almost to the wall, and even then it will be kind of hanging in the air which doesn't seem like a good idea. The alternative would be to always back into the spot but it seems like that may be a pain after awhile. I was thinking another option would be to get a short 14-50 extension cable to basically position the portable unit further out into the garage and thus allow the charge cable to reach... the downside there is that if I ever wanted to wall mount a home unit I wouldn't be able to utilize the extension cable, but maybe you can get longer primary charging cables with the home unit? If the portable unit's cable was just like 5 feet longer it would be perfect.
My other option is to put it on the side wall near the front of the garage (near the main overhead door), but on one side it would then be blocking the ICE car (cord would be behind the car to reach the Tesla), and on the other side (where the Tesla parks) it would take a much longer run and conduit to go around the whole edge/two walls of the garage. The easy thinking here would be to just change which car parks in which spot but we have bikes and things hanging to the side of the ICE car and I don't want those so close to my precious Tesla in case of any mishaps
So... not sure if anybody can offer options other than what I've mentioned but just curious as to what everybody else has done.