Bumping my thread, because part one of our much modified plan is now in the works!
Between timing and budget haven’t yet moved forward with the new electrical panel and charger, but my wife was concerned that my old and abused Subaru (details upthread) would die denying us any possible trade in while having to also pay to have it dragged away, so after many talks, we’re moved forward on the revised choice for immediate vehicle, the RAV4 Prime XSE PHEV, and my poor old Subie is in the clutches of the dealership as a trade in. She was able to secure 7k in Toyota Electric vehicle incentives and another 5k from the state by going with a lease. Not her first preference, but 12k in incentives on a 53k vehicle (more loaded out than she wanted, but they’re in pretty high demand and low quantity) spoke.
Even with just standard household current, figure a 10 hour charge of around 2 miles of range per hour will cover half of my wife’s daily commute, with a bit more offset for having a full charge from the weekend of course. So we’ll be using more of it’s gas range than ideal in the short-to-medium term, until we can do the new panel.
Then 3-5 years from now the remaining ICE only vehicle will be replaced with whatever the best AWD BEV is on the market in our price range, and we’ll be where we wanted to be.
Knock on wood, avert, and hoping all goes according to plan.