Mountain Wheels: Nissan's all-electric LEAF requires a mental readjustment | SummitDaily.com
But (and yes, there are a lot of buts with the LEAF), while the 75 mile range I had when I first received the full-charged car slowly disappeared during urban, low-speed driving, it drastically evaporated when I ran the car at 75 mpg down to Castle Rock.
More annoyingly, the car's extremely comprehensive navigation and interactivity system (your LEAF is a bit of a test vehicle and is sending data back to Nissan as you drive) sent me to an empty cul-de-sac as a listed recharging station, and I opted to take back roads and drive slowly to get back to the hotel to charge the car.
Alternately, you can use the supplied power cord to simply plug the LEAF into a household 110-volt outlet, but it takes 21 hours to fully charge. LEAF owners will have their garages wired for the same 240-volt charger I found at the hotel, and this will recharge the car in about seven hours. As mentioned, even three-plus hours on one of these chargers only got me about a quarter of a virtual tank extra.
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It's nothing to do with stopping hurricanes, don't exaggerate. If you enjoy breathing toxic fumes locally you can keep supporting gas cars.
Those 12 hours are evening and overnight so it's no inconvenience. You can enjoy queuing at the smelly gas pumps and then paying extortionate amounts to them which ultimately lines the pockets of an evil dictator or two upon who's whims our economy depends.
The leaf is suitable for a lot of people's daily drives. It may not be for everyone but that does not mean you need to vehemently attack it whilst frothing at the mouth.
Calm down and see it for what it it is. A vehicle that will help transition us from oil (& price) dependence and will give us an option of powering our vehicles from the energy sources of our choice. For some it will be hydro or wind but for some like me the choice would be solar energy captured during daylight and stored in batteries that will charge my car overnight.
Of course the first generation of mass produced EVs will have limitations and you will need to actually think and plan your longer journeys but as infrastructure and technology improves you are going to find electric vehicles the transport of the future and those that still support gas guzzlers will be the laughing stock and dinosaur relics of the past.
If it doesn't stop hurricanes why is the uk taxpayer forced to pay $7000 towards each leaf? I didn't get a subsidy for my iPad. Why should rich people get a handout to buy a toy car?
I'm with Tom on this one LOL
A quick search showed that the UK spends into the hundreds billions in oil industry "handouts" which don't include the clean-up cost that consumers pay out of pocket directly in filtering equipment on the car and the overall health cost that are a direct result of our bodies being subjected to oil industry by-products. Keep in mind, the hundreds of billions in "handouts" go to people that are not "rich" and buy an EV, they are "wealthy" and are literally Kings and buy airplanes and islands. Why can't you be mad at oil "handouts?"
Hundreds of billions of pounds in handouts?
Are you crazy? Petrol and diesel are massively taxed in the UK, you are paying about double world parity price, and 75% of this is in tax.
If it were not for these punitive taxes on fossil fuels, petrol would be about 30p a litre in the UK and nobody would even consider electric cars.
The oil industry does not receive handouts; quite the contrary it is massively taxed. Or why else do you think you are paying five times as much for petrol as it costs to mian and refine?
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