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Smart ForTwo ED – 6 hours

The Daimler-made Smart ForTwo ED comes with a smallish 17.6-kwh battery and takes around 6 hours with a lower-capacity on-board charger.
House current recharging is estimated at around 14 hours, and charging from 20 percent to 80-percent takes around 10 hours.
Bosche is the preferred EVSE supplier.

Chevrolet Spark EV – 7 hours


2014-Chevrolet-SparkEV-058-mediumGM only gave its 21-kwh battery a 3.3-kw onboard charger, so its level 2 EVSE from preferred supplier Bosche delivering 30 amps takes longer, and charging on house current does too, at 20 hours.
The upside is a SAE combo DC fast charger promises to charge the battery to 80 percent in just 20 minutes.

Mitsubishi i-MiEV – 7 hours


The i-MiEV’s 16-kwh battery takes around 7 hours to recharge at level 2.
i-MiEVMitsubishi is bold enough not only to offer the car in 50 states, it also confesses level 1 recharge time is 22.5 hours with the supplied cord.
The car also accepts DC quick charging via a CHAdeMO port that can replenish 80-percent charge in 30 minutes.

Relevance?

For those who want to travel the farthest in a day, quicker options can mean less “range anxiety.”
For example, a Nissan Leaf zapped back mid-day with a quick charger, may travel 150 miles or more, if the owner is resourceful, or fortunate enough to have charging options.
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