I think your points are good ones, but I fear it will be years before Nissan listens. I hope I'm wrong, and I state it this way to get Nissan to prove me wrong, but I am concerned that they are just going to take forever on this.specialgreen said:Do all Nissan dealers prohibit charging after-hours? Or is it a dealer-by-dealer policy?
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Nissan should request of its dealers that they make these chargers available in the evenings, when customers are traveling: if not 24x7, then at-least during typical driving hours (e.g. 6am-midnight).
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Dealer-by-dealer. One dealer near me has their whole lot barricaded when they are closed, making the CHAdeMO and L2 inaccessible. The other dealer doesn't. I bought the car from the later.specialgreen said:Do all Nissan dealers prohibit charging after-hours? Or is it a dealer-by-dealer policy?
powersurge said:You do not have to buy the car from the dealer you charge at.... When I travel, try to ALWAYS charge at the Nissan dealers, and ask if they have or will have a chademo charger. If everyone does this, Nissan will see a lot of EV user BODIES in the dealer ($$$), and be more hospitable to the EV driver needs.
Plus, you get free charging, and have a nice place to sit, watch TV, eat, and relax, and use their WIFI. Not to mention that the good feeling that you are the only one in the service department waiting area that doesn't pay tons of money to get your car fixed...
IssacZachary said:i don't know if this was mentioned, but how about everywhere where there's a Tesla Charging station? It's kind of lame when you're on a road trip and you stop at a campground to charge off of 120V all night because there's no other place you can charge a Leaf and then come to find out there's a Tesla DCQC station in the same town.
They certainly aren't paying attention to this thread!jlsoaz said:I don't have a good sense of whether, or to what extent, Nissan is paying attention to suggestions and needs from drivers.... and on charge stations, I have lost track of whether Nissan is very active these days as to trying to serve paying customers by judicious placement of, or support of placement of, stations.
cwerdna said:^^^
I wish they would speak up about this either here or some other channel (e.g. EV press).
http://nissannews.com/en-US/nissan/usa/releases/nissan-and-bmw-partner-to-deploy-dual-fast-chargers-across-the-u-s-to-benefit-electric-vehicle-drivers was announced in 2015.
I stumbled across http://nissannews.com/en-US/nissan/usa/releases/nissan-and-bmw-partner-once-again-to-expand-dc-fast-charger-access-across-the-u-s-to-benefit-ev-drivers from Jan 2017.
jlsoaz said:(Note: EVgo does not make it easier to figure out how to get in touch with them directly to request or suggest a station for one's area, so that is another reason I am mentioning here
GetOffYourGas said:jlsoaz said:(Note: EVgo does not make it easier to figure out how to get in touch with them directly to request or suggest a station for one's area, so that is another reason I am mentioning here
On the contrary. EVGo has an ongoing request for suggestions. I highly recommend you fill it out!
https://www.evgo.com/fast-charger-location/
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