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There is no Nissan specific charging network. The rest of the industry besides Tesla have long since settled on standards for charging and the presence of regul
by ebbv 9y ago
There is no Nissan specific charging network. The rest of the industry besides Tesla have long since settled on standards for charging and the presence of regular charging stations is improving but slowly.
A large part of why is that up til this generation of EVs (Chevy Bolt and new Nissan Leaf and others that are coming), they have really not made sense to drive far. You would have had to stop too often. They were in town or short (sub 30 miles) commute cars.
And having owned the previous generation Leaf for the last 3 years I can tell you 99% of our charging is done in our garage. Once in a while we park somewhere that has charging or my wife will luck into getting a charge spot in a parking garage. But we don’t take it on drives where we need a charging station to complete the journey. We have a gas car for those longer drives right now. But that will change with this new generation that have 40KWh+ batteries.
- madengr 9y agoThere is an extensive charging network here in Kansas City area; > 2000 plugs. Though as of 1/18 many have started charging $0.20/kWh, which is double the rate at home. I’ll still use them though. Places like grocery stores are still free.
- toyg 9y agoI still wouldn’t leave my car just plugged in somewhere while I walk away for extensive amounts of time. Call me paranoid, but in urban Europe people will steal and vandalise the shit out of anything that looks slightly unprotected.
- lostapathy 9y agoHelp me understand that - leaving your car plugged in while shopping is no different than leaving your gas car not-plugged-in while shopping, in terms of leaving your property around. The cord is part of the fixed charged, and not my problem ... just like the hose on a gas pump.
- stefan_ 9y agoYou typically can't unplug it without the key while charging.
- drb91 9y agoThank you for the response--I can see why I was downvoted, but it might have been a bit of a mystery without understanding how the charging networks work.