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You'll be disappointed - it is NOT standard across the range. So no 'marketing' error. My information comes from a test drive at a dealership last Thursday. If I want Rapid, I pay for the upgrade.The Nissan LEAF Visia model initially did not have the Rapid port as standard and was a £500 option. They soon realised that that was a marketing error and now the Visia has it as standard.
So you'll not buy the Merc ? Fine, you had the choice. Just don't force others who may have no wish to pay more for something they may have little or no chance of using.I wouldn't have brought an ev if it didn't have the option to rapid charge.
Only on Friday I was making my normal commute home when the phone rang. "Do you want to come bowling with us?" "Erm yes I'll meet you there I'll just grab 10 mins on the rapid and I'll make it" if rapid charging wasn't an option I'd have only made it home.
It's obviously an old model that they have in stock. Check out the latest Nissan website here under Equipment.You'll be disappointed - it is NOT standard across the range. So no 'marketing' error. My information comes from a test drive at a dealership last Thursday. If I want Rapid, I pay for the upgrade.
Making rapid charging an option makes a lot of sense if there are a good number of people that would not want it. Some people won't want rapid charging but IMO the vast majority of people will want it and so whether it is sensible to have it as an option or to just have it as standard is certainly a debatable point... however, to not even have it as an option means that the car will then only appeal to those that don't want it and so will massively limit their potential market.So you'll not buy the Merc ? Fine, you had the choice. Just don't force others who may have no wish to pay more for something they may have little or no chance of using.
I imagine it costs a lot more than that. Rapid charging creates a lot of heat and so cars with rapid charging have to incorporate a much more active and larger active battery cooling and management system.I bet it costs less than £50 to add rapid charging at the design stage. it's a socket and some cable seems a no brainer to me.