Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!
Looking through some old photos recently, I came across the one at the top of this article. The occasion? The opening of Electrify America’s station in El Paso. This was back in 2019, and it was the first non-Tesla EV charging station in the whole region. When I bought the Nissan LEAF a little over a year earlier, I was living in Phoenix, and there were plenty of charging stations even for a CHAdeMO car. But, due to some family needs, I had to move back to southern New Mexico, right smack dab in the middle of a big charging dead zone. For the better part of a year, all I had access to was Level 2.
In other words, this was a big day for the LEAF and its usefulness, and things have only gotten better since.
For the “You should have bought a Tesla” crowd that will inevitably chime in…
Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.