highland58
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7) The Chargepoint supplies a green night light in the garageIf I could put in my two cents...
I personally went with the ChargePoint Home Flex for a couple reasons, and here they are:
1) Price: $650 vs $800
2) Availability: Now vs Later
3) Mounting (biggest deciding factor for me): ChargePoint Home Flex has a place for externally mounted conduit, and also NEMA 14-50/6-50 (replaceable, same port). The Ford Connected Charge Station has to be mounted to a wall with the supply coming directly from behind. I am mounting this to an exterior brick wall, and right behind it is my kitchen. My house was built in the 1940s and I am NOT opening that can of worms. I am going to direct feed it via conduit from the basement, as the new panels are directly underneath.
4) Ease of use with other vehicles: ChargePoint app is universal. Do I need to use the Ford app regardless of vehicle make/model? That's a "most likely", and if this is a rebranded Webasto charger, will it work with a native Webasto EVSE app instead of Ford's? These questions haven't been answered by Ford. My husband is getting a Mini Cooper Countryman PHEV, I don't want to use the Ford app for his Mini Cooper. I don't want to run into any handshake/charging issues down the line.
5) Cable Management: ChargePoint cable can wrap around the unit itself, while the Ford unit has to have a separate mount. I like how contained the ChargePoint unit is.
6) Aesthetics: I like the way the ChargePoint looks a lot more. I'm weird like that, but there's a reason I won't even consider a Clipper Creek, Grizzl-e, Siemens VersiCharge, or even Juice Box... I just don't think they look good. And yes, that's enough for me. But I had other reasons as well, clearly. If we didn't care about aesthetics, we would have been fine with Ford's original compliance car design.
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