Recent content by RacyT

Yes. I broke down and phoned directly which was effective.

Supposedly with this new technology, the batteries cost by themselves about $10000. I spoke with someone at Nissan regarding this exact concern. Supposedly nissan is looking at selling the car and batteries as a whole, but she said that leasing cars is often consumer driven. But we have to speak...

So glad to have new members! Just read yesterday that in the Spring 2010, Nissan will be opening up a waiting list for the Leaf. Hope that will be worldwide and not only in areas with charging infrastructure. Hey, all we need is a long extention cord! Just get these cars and others like it on...

Well, Nissan from what I have gathered has not made that decision. First fleet, then lease, then purchase with lease of batteries. But either way, without the batteries there is no car. They still control the usage. I hope (I tend to be a cynic) that the reason for leasing the batteries is so...

New to the forum. Just wanted to introduce myself. Glad to discover this forum and that there are others wanting EV's. Demand is very important as we saw what happend in the late '90's with the EV-I. I am concerned that the only option of leasing the Leaf is so that they may try to take them...