I just got my quote from Aerovironment for installing the charger. Over $4000! About $3000 was installation charge. OK, a wire has to go underground for about 10 ft, but as the electrician said, it's no big deal (it's not). Let's be ridiculous and imagine that it would take 8 hrs to install (no way), that would amount to $375 per hour. Just to put that into perspective that's equivalent to an annual salary of $750K! But it's worse because it will probably take a max of 2 hrs to install. Even a Goldman Sachs executive would not sneer at that pay.
Even if the quote came in at the standard $2200, does anyone think that's reasonable? About $1000 of that is labor and it's hard to imagine it's more than an hour's worth of work.
I really wanted a Leaf, but this looks like a deal breaker unless Nissan thinks better of this charger installation scam. I hope others will just say no to this rip off so Nissan is forced to do right by its dedicated following. What say you?
Even if the quote came in at the standard $2200, does anyone think that's reasonable? About $1000 of that is labor and it's hard to imagine it's more than an hour's worth of work.
I really wanted a Leaf, but this looks like a deal breaker unless Nissan thinks better of this charger installation scam. I hope others will just say no to this rip off so Nissan is forced to do right by its dedicated following. What say you?