darth_vad3r
Well-Known Sith
Happy for the existing owners, but I can't imagine many new buyers will bite given the price and 50kW limitation.
While it is true that the Leaf has driven Chademo deployments (and is now the only new car being sold in the US that natively supports Chademo), there are two things to consider:
- Most non-EA Chademo chargers are in metro areas, since few people make road trips with the Leaf (at least that was the case before this year's Plus with more range was released)
- CCS is rapidly catching up. According to the DoE, there are currently 2047 Chademo stations with 2891 outlets in the US, while there are 1727 CCS stations with 3194 outlets.
Great link. CCS is ahead of CHAdeMO in Canada for both stations and outlets:
CHA 444, 584
CCS 530, 669 (registers one more if L2 selected, is there one L2 CCS location? )
Tesla SC 60, 657
Tesla (incl L2) 547, 1917
Alternative Fuels Data Center: Electric Vehicle Charging Station Locations