Darren
Well-known member
I am getting increasingly frustrated with the Nissan DCQC setup. I am curious if anyone else is having similar frustrations. 1 & 2 are mostly just me venting. 3 & 4 are very real issues that I curious if they are affecting others besides me.
1) The key fob. It is inconvenient enough to have to charge publicly as often as I do. At some dealerships, I have spent as much as 15 mins just rounding up someone to turn on the DCQC. Why would Nissan make it more inconvenient by requiring the dealership have the only key fob? Why can't customers have their own fobs like ChargePoint, Blink and others?
2) Dealership hours. I realize that Nissan installed these at dealerships for several reasons but on more than one occasion I have had to reschedule my plans to accommodate the dealership hours. Knowing that if the dealership closed, I wasn't making it home.
3) Charging to 80%. I know other DCQC units such as the Eaton can charge beyond 80% if you need to (albeit at a slower rate). I am assuming Nissan wants to try to maximize battery life but that brings me to #3.
4) The Nissan DCQC units won't let me get an 80% charge. If I plug in with a completely empty battery (one bar and <5 miles range), it immediately reads that I have a 20-25% charge. Then when it shuts off at 80%, I am typically 4 bars low. I tested it with an dealership employee the other night where we let it go to 80%, it shut off and we immediately plugged it back in and restarted it with the fob. It then showed 70%. We then took it to 80% through repeating the process several more times.
I have not lost any bars of capacity and several different dealerships are telling me that the car is behaving properly with the current software.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts or insights.
1) The key fob. It is inconvenient enough to have to charge publicly as often as I do. At some dealerships, I have spent as much as 15 mins just rounding up someone to turn on the DCQC. Why would Nissan make it more inconvenient by requiring the dealership have the only key fob? Why can't customers have their own fobs like ChargePoint, Blink and others?
2) Dealership hours. I realize that Nissan installed these at dealerships for several reasons but on more than one occasion I have had to reschedule my plans to accommodate the dealership hours. Knowing that if the dealership closed, I wasn't making it home.
3) Charging to 80%. I know other DCQC units such as the Eaton can charge beyond 80% if you need to (albeit at a slower rate). I am assuming Nissan wants to try to maximize battery life but that brings me to #3.
4) The Nissan DCQC units won't let me get an 80% charge. If I plug in with a completely empty battery (one bar and <5 miles range), it immediately reads that I have a 20-25% charge. Then when it shuts off at 80%, I am typically 4 bars low. I tested it with an dealership employee the other night where we let it go to 80%, it shut off and we immediately plugged it back in and restarted it with the fob. It then showed 70%. We then took it to 80% through repeating the process several more times.
I have not lost any bars of capacity and several different dealerships are telling me that the car is behaving properly with the current software.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts or insights.