It was my understanding that the cost is so high because it is a 240V charger - so that you can charge as fast as possible at home.
Although, $2000 still seems high!
Just thought some might find this interesting.
http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index?dcp=ppn.39666654.&dcc=0.216878497#/leaf-electric-car/video/view/charging
Interesting idea.
I don't know that there are even that many Nissan Dealerships that could provide the service, although I guess the Nissan Leaf itself is more for big-city people with less than 100mile regular commutes.
Then I guess they couldn't charge for the battery when you buy the...
Typical for Seattle to be setting the pace for other cities to follow.
I wonder if this is a federally based program? Then there would be hope of the government rolling it out other cities and other Nissan Leaf purchasers?
If it's only a city or state level program, then I guess as an east...
I would imagine Nissan took speed bumps into consideraion when designing the electric vehicle, although maybe they would mainly just care about the vehicle regulations and what they say about minimum ride height.
Somewhere else on this Forum someone said something about the Nissan Leaf being...
I'm glad this Leaf forum has a spot to discuss potential competition for the Nissan Leaf. This forum gives us a chance to gloat on Nissan's behalf. Nissan is really the only company that seems to be serious about this electric vehicle thing... they are either genius or crazy, or somewhere in...
Hi Jessica,
I know there has been talk of a spaceship-type safety 'noise' on the Leaf.
My question is whether or not the Nissan Leaf that is on tour right now has this noise, or if it's something that will happen before mass production? I'm guessing it isn't, because otherwise somebody would...
I just noticed the title of this nissan leaf forum section is Sights, and Sounds (or something like that).
With all the talk of how the Leaf will output some pedestrian safety noise so blind people will hear it coming, you'd think someone would have a youtube video of the noise.
Maybe the...