Visiting The Ultimate Home Charging Guru! Full Tour Of State of Charge & Electrical Setup 

It’s a long one but it’s for the nerds! Thanks for having us over, Tom. This was so much fun ⚡️

Love Kyle's senior moment as he's looking at the Lucid charging and asks if it will charge a non Lightning :)

My two favorite EV nerds, nerding out together. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Love Tom!! He’s literally the reason I chose to buy a Lucid Air after he tested one. He’s awesome!

I totally love this video! It's always such a privilege to see Tommy @StateOfChargeEV behind the scenes whether it's with Kyle or Dave @OutofspecDave. Tom has so much knowledge to share and there's always so many stories to go with it. Great stuff as always guys!

The collab I never knew I needed

Thanks for the visit, Tom. amazing conversation. Sat through every commercial. You’re welcome, Kyle. Keep up the great content.

Man, this was the best team up since Batman and Superman!!! Really good work guys, great video.

This is one of the best EV videos to date in 2023 😂

Love this video! You two guys are the reason I watch Insideevs. I am looking to do something similar at my house (but maybe on a smaller scale). I definitely need to watch this several times! Thanks Tom and Kyle. Also, Tom if you could throw me in the mix for the next charger giveaway, I would appreciate it ☺️

two of my favorites, nerding out, and Tom what a garage and basement! great stuff!

I'm not in an EV yet, but this quick and dirty rundown on all the chargers is great! That Emporia unit is something that I'll have to consider when I eventually jump into an EV.

Laughed out loud at 48:45 when you say "If you have time, of course you have time if your still watching this." Hilarious!

Obviously I dont know Tom but from watching all his videos he seems like one of the nicest guys in the world

Love the nerd level with you two.

Great episode guys! Lots of good honest information

The advice to use the correct rated TeslaTap is on point. Many don't appreciate the importance of this. I commented on one of Branden Flasch's ID.4 road trip videos that using a 40 amp TeslaTap was risky. He got all bent out of shape. Can't figure out why facts upset folks so much.

I don't own a house, I don't have an EV, but I watched this entire video... Congratulations for putting together this video!

And this is how the first EV rock band gets started, I watched the whole thing ( not all in one sitting) but really nerded out and almost understood 75% of what you two were talking about all do to watching both your channels, awesome.

You and Tom make a great EV media duo (and Martyn and Dom too of course). Great video and hopefully you guys get to collab more often.

It was worthwhile watching just for the general feedback of EVSEs and then saving the home backup system for last. Really Cool

Woah, hold up now… @2:38 did you really just say NOS equipped with CRX, and twin turbo RX7?! I have a completely newfound respect for you Tom!👍

camera work was done really well

Thanks for the tour of Tom’s Wall of Fame!

Tom's wall is a museum of home chargers. He will be able to charge admission in years to come to all EV geeks.

This is my new favorite RU-vid video

Both of you were fantastic on this video! I listened to EVERY word, had a few laughs with you and learned quite a lot! Thank you Kyle and Tom! One of your best informative videos.....

Wow. I loved it too. Thanks gentleman. Happily been watching you both for about 2-3 year or more. All the best. Lotsa love to all ❤❤❤

Clearly, Tom is the guru of home EV chargers. Some day, I hope he reviews a few chargers supporting multiple accounts, direct billing, and pricing tiers. These are desperately needed at condominiums / apartments for home charging. I installed and manage an Enel-X Commercial Juicebox. What other brands perform well at a competitive price?

Great video! Tom is a National Treasure for EV owners and anyone considering the best way to charge at home! Minor quibble: Nissan pioneered vehicle-to-home charging in Japan years ago so Ford isn't actually the first. Also, the tint on Tom's F150 light bar looks sharp!

Glad to see you guys hanging out together, you need to hang out more often. Excellent review of ALL of Tom's chargers. Wonder if Tom's ever going to Fort Collins Colorado?

Unbelievable video. The whole thing is worth watching, especially since it features two of my three favorite EV RU-vidrs (only missing Tesla Bjorn). All the best.

Love the clipper creek units. Half of the ones I find in Minnesota or Wisconsin are covered in snow/ice this time of year and I have yet to be disappointed. I have a grizzl-e avalanche edition installed outside that is currently covered in snow and works great and has all winter. Tom had the only good review of it on RU-vid at the time I bought it. Great video guys

I reckon this is my best 1 hour 16 mins and 23 secs ev education... thank you so much and keep up the excellent videos...🎉

Excellent I love hearing about all you discussed. I'm very interested in home backup. I like the videos that both Tom and Kyle put out. It's very helpful. It was excellent to see both of you putting out this video. Put out some more together that cover in depth subjects like this.

The Ford Lightning Frunk is such a great design. Lower load in.

So cool to see Tom interviewed. I watch his content all the time. Great weekend morning coffee time spent. Cool to see a vid shot from him as the guest but in his lair. Thx. Enjoyed greatly. You two rock.

Learned quite a bit for those of us just getting into this sphere - Thanks!

Do love my Emporia charger. Also, really feeling the tint on the Lightning.

Loved this cross-collab between these two pros. Thanks for the insights and the tours. And wow, that's a lot of EVSEs! It was really interesting to watch Tom go through each one and talk quickly about pros/cons. That could be a great once-a-year video: Tom summarizes his charging wall in today's market context.

This is the ultimate scooby doo and Batman crossover episode

There is a small college close to my place that has a free to use Clipper Creek charger. That thing is 10 years old and never goes down. So reliable and sturdy.

When power goes out it’s typically very regional, for example, if my power is out even for several days it’s typically not out at work in town and vice versa albeit for a much shorter timeframe. Tom you have touched on this before. So that being said the system we are building counts on a very small lithium battery 5-6 KWH that serves a critical load (refrigeration outlets and lighting) sub panel through an inverter charger. The Lightning is being set up through the 30A, 240 outlet in the bed to plug into a generator transfer switch that feeds the primary panel. By night the Lightning runs all loads in the house with some management, including the charger to bring the critical load battery back to full. By day the critical load battery keeps the food cold the internet on while the Lightning is recharging at work. If work is out also, we are still covered for three days.

I bought the Chargepoint unit on your recommendation Tom and I'm very happy with it. And I specifically remember your comment about the cord staying flexible in freezing weather. Thank you. On a different note, Kyle, you were going to buy a Lightning? And, if I remember correctly, you have a Taycan on order? Jeez, how do you afford to own all these expensive vehicles??? Do you have a side job you're not telling us about?

That wasn't boring at all. Watched every minute

I guess I’m officially a nerd. Thank you guys so much !

Yep. We got our JuiceBox for about 100 bucks. Our county paid for the rest.

Ha! Made it through all of the video (in segments). Solar with battery backup is a great solution. The battery can be fixed like the Powerwall or any other fixed battery & portable battery backup in the form of a vehicle is a great solution to distributed power. At some point there will be 2nd life EV batteries used in stationary battery applications in homes. Thanks Tom for the through explanation of his get 1 system. Long, but worth it.

Thanks for sharing your set up with us. I've got the same Sunny Boy inverter installed in 2007, still going strong. Neither of our EVs will do V2G, so I may go down the battery storage route.

I must be weird because I love every minutes of it especially when kyle ask if he the Ford charger would work on his Rivian Truck. that was funny .

Watched the whole thing. You guys are not boring!

Tinting on the Lightning looks good 👍

Loved this video!! Thanks Kyle, Tom and Anna!

Great tour, the length was appropriate for the content! 👍🏻

I loved this video. I learn so much about electric cars. I will be so prepared once I am able to get one

Great content. I learn something every time. There will shortly be a CCS to J-plug adapter for those older vehicles I'm sure. My problem with mobile charging is always the FMC over heating. Am hoping Tom will start testing at 100 degrees F too. Hopefully most of the after market stuff handles it like a champ.

That was nerdericious! Awesome, thanks.

Randomly dropping a 30 second safety tip 43mins into an hour and sixteen minutes video and then other one later on. XD Thanks for the non-hardwired charged tips! I've let Dad know he needs to replace the powerpoint yearly. He upgraded the powerpoint around the first week we got the car so at least it's easy to know how old it is.

Thanks Tom and Kyle, love the nerdy stuff!

You guys are having WAY too much fun! Great info.

Good job on tinting the light bar. If I ever got a Lightning that is the first thing I'd do.

Thanks, this was my first intro to all these chargers. Great video!!

Awesome video. Love the collaboration between two channels. The charge station pro is awesome. FORD really knew their customers would want to be able to charge their trucks to full every night even if it was just 8-9 hours at home. Also the Home integration system is very cool. Expensive for a back up system BUT if you are going solar anyway, any 10 kw inverter you will get is actually at least half of the whole cost of the home integration system components and you can opt to get a 10 kw inverter even though Tom only got a 4 kw. I know this because I have a lightning, I purchased the back up system, they sent me a 4KW inverter and I returned it for a 10 kw one.

Wow... That is amazing. Thanks for this.

wow, fantastic tour and explanations! Thanks to both of you!

I LOVE THIS episode! A quick walkthrough of so many Level 2 chargers. I'm all about Level 2 charging. Too much attention is given to fast charging in my opinion.

That was really great. Thanks guys!

Thanks for the tour

Geeking out on home charging, love it!! ⚡⚡

Excellent Episode. Really appreciate the detail!

eMotorWerks is right here in my home town of San Carlos, which is also the founding city of Tesla. I also have an early JuiceBox EVSE too.

Great video Kyle. Love When you and Tom get together. Beautiful House Tom.

This is one heck of a great video guys …… Thanks!

Awesome video! Great work!

Great video! Tom is so knowledgeable!

Really enjoyed this one.

Been watching a lot of videos from State of Charge lately. Really good stuff!!!

Saving this one to watch later- love the nerdy videos!

Very interesting and watched the entire video. Thank you for the video.

We have a Clipper Creek I put in for our 2017 Bolt. Great service & unit still servicing our Bolt & now I use it at home for the Rivian. It is outdoors under the solar panels. We charge during the lowest rate times.

Tom and Kyle, I am one of those that installed the Ford HIS via SunRun. I have existing SunPower solar panels that provide AC via microinverters. Realizing that our new Lightning would require more KWH, we added an additional eight SunRun DC panels(these run through the Delta bidirectional). Although the HIS does function when power is lost, it only does so if we manually disconnect the SunRun panels(via bottom switch of the Delta). If the SunRun panels remain connected, every backed-up circuit flashes with interrmittent power. SunRun has yet to figure out how to make it function properly.

A good solar controller reads the battery and cuts back on what it passes to the system. The nice thing about DC power is that many different sources can input at the same time if they match the system voltage. Great system. RV solar/ battery systems work the same way. Get a few Lithium batteries and build your own "power wall" type system.

Great video guys!

Great video, loved it! Great looking basement,

If you use your truck for backup, after a few days, you can always go to a fast charger and pickup a few more days of electricity.

Tinted light bar 👌

So awesome !!!!

Excellent insight and info!

I am still rocking my OpenEVSE. I event converted it over to Tesla. :)

I had one of the earlier Juicebox's that wasn't a smart unit. I plugged mine in to my welder plug and charged my 500e at 30A with it. No connectivity, but it always worked. I remember you set the max current with a potentiometer inside the unit.

Tesla’s Wall Connector for $425 is a bargain! Best option by far

I enjoyed the hell out of this. Thanks guys

Just got the black emporia and it looks a lot better. Cable seems better than my Rivian brand charger.

talking about "Junk Chargers" EVs in the UK have stopped coming with Granny chargers, we find ours very useful. So when my sister in law got a Kia Niro EV, and it had no granny charger, she looked at amazon ones for £190, I told her she'd be better off getting a Tesla granny charger (as almost all cars here are now Type 2/ Type 2 CCS) and it's great as you can hot swap heads on it.

Fascinating overall review

It would be useful to learn about the 25W DC chargers that are popping up for home and business use.

Great video. I don’t have an EV yet but plan to. I have an Enphase solar system with battery back up. Look forward to a video about the Enphase car charger. It is complicated and interesting how this all works together.

Commendable Competence; Elaborate Multiplicity.

I've been interested in electric motorcycles and electric vehicles in general since 1967 when Karl and Union Carbide build a fuel-cell powered electric bike.

Here in Australia, we have a Kia EV6 AWD GT-Line on order which is probably still 6 ~12 months away before we get it. At our house, we have currently a 4.5KW Solar Hybrid System with 12KW LiFe battery system and a manual plug in mobile diesel generator which can deliver 6KW into the system. This will be upgraded to a 24KW solar/40KW LiFe battery and a 15KW auto-start Diesel Generator very soon. We are just waiting for equipment as some of it is on back order. At this stage, we are expecting system upgrade/install within the next 4~6 months. I have been running my current Hybrid system for 10 years now with various upgrades throughout. Yes, I am a qualified Electrician + Communications/Electronic Technician, but not solar certified, so all my solar knowledge is via running my own system and self study. What I can tell you is that your current system is without a doubt 1st generation and NOT working as it should. When I loose Grid power, I barely see the lights dim or any change and on multiple occasions didn't even know that we lost the Grid and that we were running on Stand-alone. Your system should cut over in milliseconds...not minutes ! Your original Solar Inverter should also still supply power as it should have been AC Coupled and your hybrid system should supply it with the correct AC Frequency, which fools the Solar Inverter into thinking that the Mains Power is still on and as such keeps supplying Solar energy Power. On our new upgrade, we will install a "Grid Outage Alert" ceiling light, just to give us a simple visual aid regarding Grid Outage. According to Kia, their new EV6 is suppose to be able to feed back into the house, but that has gone a bit quite now. Should they ever bring the functionality to fruition, we might just integrate it in a future stage. More as a fun project then a real requirement in our situation...simply because we can and I am a bit of a geek when it comes to technology.