CarmineMac
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SimonMTL said:Graycenphil said:Do all Nissan dealers have chargers?
Are most available 24/7?
Do they charge you if you didn't buy the car there?
In Plattsburgh (upstate New York), the Nissan dealer used to charge for the L2, but got asked by Nissan to back off. So now, they will have you pay a 50$ fee to use the parking spot in front of the charger (charger is free, parking is not). Crazy right? Well, since they have the ONLY charger in the area, they still get people who are STUCK to pay the fee. If you get your car fixed there, and they charge it up afterwards, they charge you 50$.
They were on PlugShare, but had such horrible comments, the location has been deleted.
I placed a complaint to Nissan USA, who -NEVER FOLLOWED UP-. I think they're just too afraid to lose their only Leaf dealership in that area.
Most chargers at dealerships are placed behind closed gates after business hours, so they are not accessible 24/7 at all. Do check PlugShare.com to see if the specific charger you need access to has comments about its availability, or you might have a bad surprise.
You could file a price gouging complaint with the NY Attorney General here. There is a prerequisite for price gouging in that it has to be in response to "abnormal disruption of the market." I would argue that the recent increase in the number of vehicles that require electric "refueling" is the disruption to which this dealer is responding. If they offered the service for substantially less than $50 before the "abnormal disruption," that's price gouging.