The journal
Charging28 Aug 2026

Charging at home, and what it actually needs

A hand plugging a charging cable into the port of a white electric vehicle
Stock photograph. The vehicle shown is not a Kaifeng. Photograph: Unsplash

The public charging conversation is the loud one, and for most owners it is the wrong one. A vehicle that goes out in the morning and comes back at night is a vehicle that charges overnight, at home or at the depot, on the same power the building already has.

The KF1 EV takes 6.6 kW from its onboard charger. On an ordinary wall box that is an overnight job rather than a coffee break, which is exactly what you want it to be: you are not waiting on it, you are asleep. Plan the parking, not the stopping.

What that wall box needs behind it — the circuit, the cable, whether the supply into the building will carry it at all — is a question for an electrician who has seen your meter, and the installation is a question for MV Dugar Group. Ask both before you buy, not after.