Qualtrics survey - CARWINGS Charge Station Availability

[richard]

Nissan just put out another of their Qualtrics surveys today. This one was focused on mileage (average miles driven on
weekdays/weekends) and charging metrics (how often one uses different charging stations: public, friends house, etc..)

Funny, they didn't ask at all about drivers' experiences with for-pay stations.

The most interesting thing was the reveal of a potential new CARWINGS feature:

This would be great if they can pull it off.

 

[TomT]

I got the same survey... Figure the 2013 model year for that.

This would be great if they can pull it off.

 

[ebill3]

Too long. I'll devote about three minutes to a survey, unless they are giving me something in return for my time.

Bill

 

[thankyouOB]

The survey was fine.
It had the usually survey faults of not allowing for fine tuning of answers.
I also got an email invite for a web-survey from the CA Rebate folks at the same time:
Sincerely,
David Almeida
Plug-in Electric Vehicle Program Manager

California Center for Sustainable Energy
8690 Balboa Ave., Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92123-1502
858.244.1190 phone
858.244.1178 fax
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It was much longer and they offered me a chance to do a UC Davis survey.
I did all three. Folks are really trying to pin down the infrastructure support issues.
I certainly wish that Nissanand MItsub would get on the stick and start subsidizing L3 along major roadways and attractions.

 

[lpickup]

It wasn't too bad of a survey. Asked some good questions I thought and there were a few places to type in "Other" where I was able to give them some additional feedback.

However, I was disappointed that it didn't go into more detail on why I was "unhappy" with CARWINGS and lack of timely updating of stations. I thought I was going to be given an opportunity to explain in more detail why I used chargepoint.net and plugshare.com, but no go.

I like the proposed change, but I would've really preferred a "crowd-sourcing" update where stations we plug into are automatically uploaded to the server for sharing with everyone else (subject to marking a station as "public" or "private" with "private" being the default so we don't end up with everyone's home stations in our maps).