Like casino players with club cards, electric-car owners are used to freebies tossed at them left and right. Nissan is upping the ante—and calling Tesla on its free Supercharger network—by giving new Leaf owners free charging for two years.
There’s fine print. You’ll have to live in one of 10 targeted areas (Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, or Washington, D.C., or Portland, Oregon). Although the offer is valid at 2600 public stations under the broad EZ-Charge network—assuming there’s even a metered price, as many charging stations are already free—Leaf drivers will need to double-check via a smartphone app whether their chosen plug is part of the promotion. Another 15 cities will get the deal by next year, and to keep things hot for Leaf buyers and lessees, Nissan hasn’t hinted an expiration date.
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Nissan says that 200 of those 2600 stations are the CHAdeMO fast-chargers that can fill a spent battery to 80 percent in a half hour. Given the heavy-duty 50-kW electrical service at those stations, it’s a pretty good deal. Nissan dealers plan to add 500 more on-site, although we’re not sure why anyone would want to visit their dealer on a weekly basis, even for a quickie. And there’s no way Nissan is paying for your home charger, as Cadillac is with the first 1000 ELR buyers, or subsidizing your roof with solar panels, as with Tesla. You’ll need to make more money for that to happen.
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