cayblood said:
Has anyone else noticed that the superchargers at the dealerships are constantly out of order? They get fixed and then break again shortly thereafter. I've been talking about it with various dealership employees and they are saying that the dealerships were all encouraged to buy a specific brand that has had a 60% failure rate and now is no longer even manufactured. The dealerships are now upset that they are being told to install a new unit from Siemens that is supposedly more reliable, but they are of course expected to pay for it themselves (no support from Nissan).
First off, you have your terminology wrong.
There are 3 incompatible DC fast charge standards in the US.
- Tesla
Supercharger: See http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. There are currently 0 in UT and they're not usually installed at dealers anyway.
- CHAdeMO: http://www.chademo.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. This is what Leafs can use, when equipped w/the port.
- J1772 CCS aka Combo1 of SAE Combo - AFAIK, there are 0 of these in UT and somewhere between 15-25 operational ones in the entire US.
See http://www.mychevysparkev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5012#p5012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for pictures of the plugs. Yes, there are at least 6 incompatible plugs for DC FCing in the world.
Can you please give Plugshare URLs of the dealers you're talking about? URL to the Siemens DC FC you're talking about? I've never seen a Siemens CHAdeMO DC FC anywhere nor heard of any of the US. I see http://www.chademo.com/wp/chademocharger/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's not a complete list.
Please indicate what this "specific brand is" that is allegedly no longer even manufactured.
Also, you posted twice in 2 different areas. Don't do that. One post got deleted for you. Also, can you please fix the title of your first post? Due to your terminology confusion, you've made for a confusing and misleading thread.
Nobody should be calling DC fast chargers which are NOT
Tesla Supercharger a "Supercharger". That seriously only adds to confusion and folks who don't know any better will only spread it.