The Ford Mobile Charger that comes with the Mach-e is a 32A charger requiring at least a 40A circuit.
I'll counter that recommendation. Even a 48A L2 charger isn't fast enough to be useful for a quick long distance charge, so you'll generally be charging overnight anyway. In that light there isn't much difference between 8 hours and 11 (assuming this is for an ER battery). Why use more expensive heavier gauge wire and add more load to your service than necessary?
That would be one of the few reasons I could think of to go higher (the possibility of two BEVs in the garage). I know for us that's never likely to happen though. We're already in our 60's, plus I plan to always retain one ICE (for road trips) to pair with the BEV.
If you have 2 cars, do you charge one for a while and then swap the cable? With a 2 car garage and given the free mobile charger, 2 40A circuits (1 with a purchased EVSE, the other with a NEMA 14-50 socket for the mobile charger) would seem to be more practical to me, but I only have ICEs now.
Mine does that too. Picks the highest 15-minute block of the month and slaps a rate like 10x on that. I've looked at a year's worth of my bills though and that's always mid-late afternoon (probably A/C, oven, and dryer all on same time). Even two 32A draws concurrently overnight wouldn't have come close to those afternoon peaks. We'll just want to make sure we never set it to charge in late afternoon to where it adds to that 15-minute peak at the super-high rate.
Sure, but assuming you plan ahead and have your electrician run 2 lines instead of one, I would expect the price for the electrician to be a lot less than that EVSE - again assuming the free mobile charger is the second EVSE in the garage. Or, as in my case if the service panel is in the garage and you are able to run a new line into it yourself the cost is relatively trivial for the second line.
