cwerdna
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Indeed, it seems VW/EA was able to trick or convince regulators to allow them to not be standards neutral as part of their settlement. Remember, EA was part of VW's dieselgate settlement where they got to choose how to spend $2 billion of their/our money.SageBrush said:I'm not sure what that means. EA wrote the rules, which included only supporting 'open standard' plugs. The token CHAdeMO was included to rationalize keeping Tesla out.cwerdna said:Yes. Unfortunately, EA wasn't forced to be standards neutral on their deployments.
Your advocacy for even number of CHAdeMO and CCS plugs is irrational, albeit expected on a LEAF user group.
I'm not the only person complaining about this. http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=84&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=5589&cHash=fff41d37326d49155d8139c7a2fbfe86 wrote about it too.
Their actions have basically have had the effect of doing what VW AG seems to have wanted all along, to slow down Nissan and to push people towards a standard that now finally has V2H/V2G capability vs. one that's had it since 2012 (https://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/05/leafvsh-20120530.html) if not earlier.
Obviously, they didn't care about that nor did they try to equally improve CHAdeMO (e.g. in terms of charging speeds, features, higher voltages, etc.)
If I finally get a buyback # from GM for Bolt and it's decent, even I don't want to buy a Leaf (as a temp EV) partly because it has CHAdeMO. I know that if I go long distances, I can't really depend on EA w/its single CHAdeMO plug at each site and will have to hope that other networks have a decent # of CHAdeMO plugs as backup.
I might lease/takeover a lease of a Leaf though w/the intent to turn it in at the end.