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      02-20-2018, 01:00 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Aye-eight View Post
Same here. Having played around with a heavy-duty mobile charger on a variety of outlets - all the way to 400V 32A - I noticed that 240/220V 16A is all the car can take. You can hook it up to more powerful outlets, but it won’t charge any faster than 2 hours. Seems like BMW gave it a rather mild charge controller to go with the small battery size.
Correct - unlike the i3, the i8 only has a 16A on-board charger.
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