LeftieBiker said:What asshats. The could have specified 4-1 CCS/Chademo, but no - they had to screw the drivers of the most popular budget EV. Humans really are incapable of doing anything right.
Well....keep in mind the long term timeframe considered by the planning document (https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/president-biden-usdot-and-usdoe-announce-5-billion-over-five-years-national-ev-charging) The full program guidance is located as a link on there. It's not prohibiting the installation of CHADEMO by any means - it's just not requiring them. Your best bet is to contact whoever in your state is going to be required to submit plans to the fed gov later this year arguing for CHADEMO to be included in the state plans.
Although -
The plan for build out is targeting a 2030 date for the 500,000 chargers. Through the end of last year - Nissan only sold 165,710 Nissan Leafs (114,827 from 2010-2017). Assuming a 10 year lifecycle for the Leafs sold from 2010-2017 - most of the Leafs are going to be off the road by the end state contemplated and no automakers are planning to move forward with the CHADEMO standard in the future.
Granted - i have severe doubts that was really considered. I think the only real consideration is that CCS standard has been chosen as the US standard moving forward and so as a matter of infrastructure build out it doesn't really make sense to tie up the money for legacy or proprietary standards for a set of cars that made up less than 4% of all auto sales in the past. Last year Nissan sold 14,239 Leafs - looking at overall potential future demand - it's really a drop in the bucket compared to projected future EV sales with CCS chargers - including Nissan's own Ariya.
To be sure, it sucks for those of us with Leafs, but in terms of big government planning - it's fairly sensible since only 2 vehicles are currently sold in the US with the CHADEMO standard (and in relatively low volumes) and the Leaf in it's current form dies by 2025. By comparison Tesla sold an estimated 360,000 vehicles (https://insideevs.com/news/560307/tesla-outsell-bmw-us-2021/) As a matter of policy for future EV adoption, it's good that a standard is more or less being codified by automakers and government.