Agreed and you guys in the States have it way better than other Countries.
Mind you I think 1 trumps 2. If you give them 300 kms range then people will care less about the chargers. They will be doing <80 kms per day 90% of their days but will always fell happy when the GOM states 130 kms...
I recently spent an afternoon driving around to a few of Melbourne's chargepoints. These were installed as part of the Victorian EV trial and are available for public use for free. They appear on the chargepoint app but I went to one out East and it wasn't there anymore so I've decided to check...
Bit amateur sorry but put together this short video after my first week with the Leaf. On the first couple of days I was a bit concerned about the (lack of) range the GOM was showing. But after a couple of days, more forum reading and experimenting with the climate control I am now starting to...
Just bought myself one of these ($5 bucks on ebay):
It says it takes a couple of AAA batteries and has a USB port for power. I hope the USB port can charge the AAA's.
Should do the trick for lighting the port though.
I believe you need the leaf spy app and an OCBD connector (bluetooth seems to work well). The Leaf app gives you access to change a lot of features through settings.