Are #CHAdeMO#EV public chargers typically less reliable than others? Failed to charge on 3 of them today, had to drip-feed on a Type 2 for an hour. Not having a home charger I can rely on is rapidly becoming a nightmare.
When we bought our Nissan Leaf EV in 2018 I read it was the most popular EV in all of Europe, so a bet on CHAdeMO felt safe. Fast forward to now and it’s pretty gutting to see banks of new chargers pop up which are exclusively CCS and CHAdeMO being a bit of a rarity. #ElectricVehicle#NissanLeaf#CCS#CHAdeMO#EarlyAdopterPain
@Wen Yep, they’ve been common enough so far. We just noticed this weekend when we did a longer trip down toward Manchester that most service stations had more CCS than CHAdeMO, and the newer banks were almost exclusively CCS.
There's so much #HATE in the comments section of our recent videos for the #NissanLEAF electric car, and in fact any car that uses #CHAdeMO as its charging standard.
Telling owners of older EVs to metaphorically just go suck it because their car's charging standard is no-longer used by new cars is antithetical to my entire reason for covering this industry. I'm really quite upset about it.
I’ve owned two LEAFs, and loved them. I don't love the way that Nissan handled the battery issues these cars had, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the cars because.. I DID.
Can you all help me understand why the #EV world is so darned fractured and #tribalistic right now, especially in the #US? It's getting me down.