Ingineer
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Keep in mind there is a big difference from the Dealer and Nissan Corporate. Dealers have learned that it makes happy customers to help provide a better charging situation for them, rather than spew the "company line" and have them contract with AV for a $1000+ charger install. There is at least one situation I am aware of where a customer was quoted almost $6000 to have his AV unit installed. (They determined he needed a whole new service panel, meter, entrance, and feed cabling to meet code for the 40a AV breaker that only will pull 16a!)mckemie said:Picked up my Leaf yesterday and asked at the dealer for another 110v charge thingy. He said as soon as they get one, they send it off to be converted (presumably to Phil). And that they had two in progress. I was highly surprised because it is Nissan that has foisted off this whole J1772 $2000 home charging station scam on us and I would expect them to be opposed to any cost effective alternatives to their recommendations. I certainly would have expected Nissan to have supplied a Phil-like device if they wanted to be cost effective.
I suspect Nissan corporate will never officially recommend people have us upgrade their EVSE's, but they are aware of it, and I suspect they are happy that we are removing an extra impediment for people to buy a LEAF.
Keep in mind it's not Nissan's fault. We have all these crazy code requirements and byzantine rules and regulations that vary from city to city to adhere to. In my opinion it's silly, but that's what we've got with our over litigious society.
-Phil