Search results

I drive my leaf for the money saving, and I drive my ICE cars when I want to have some fun driving. There's characteristics to the leaf's steering and braking I think are unresponsive enough I feel more confident in my ICE cars. For enjoyment factor I really appreciate the quiet interior and...

If regulations allow it, they could speed swap the battery. I sure hope Nissan doesn't try to use the same 2013 Leaf battery. It might be good publicity but the battery chemistry isn't nearly as good as some more expensive chemistries. If they use the same battery, I'm sure they could make a...

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41709.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; This was put together by Congressional Research Service, a policy issues research arm of the US Congress, published in April 2013. I think for laymen like me this is a very informative, broad, and easy to...

3-4 years from now, when more manufacturers get into electric vehicles, Nissan will be closer to reaching their 200,000 vehicle limit to qualify for the full tax credit than the other manufacturers. When that time comes the electric vehicle market will be more competitive than now and Nissan may...

Wire mesh can be attached to the panels with clips like the heyco sunscreener. Keeping rodents out is important because they may bite the wires or damage the roof. Building integrated panels has some great advantages, but it is still quite expensive in comparison.

I got a leaf last month, also in GA. The $5,000 state incentive for a 2 year lease makes it an incredibly good deal. Only one or two states have better EV incentives.

What I got from my salesperson didn't give me some important information. For example, she only briefly touched upon the range limitation of the leaf by saying it had a range of 100 miles (true for the overly optimistic LA4 cycle but not EPA). There's many other things I might mention but what...

It would be nice if the shifter was also a storage compartment. I wasn't fond of how the puck worked until I was in a parking space trying to wiggle my way out and I realized it is actually very easy to just slap the puck to R and D repeatedly. In an automatic transmission PRND shifter, I have...

Quickcharging stations have limited amount of chargers. Imagine going to a charging station, and all the chargers are being used. You park next to a leaf being charged, open your car's charging port, and walk off into a restaurant. When the other person returns to his car, he sees your car with...

The leaf looks quirky, bulbous, and friendly. I think if they made the leaf more conventional looking, people would forget it is supposed to be an innovative electric car. If they made it more sleek and aggressive it wouldn't perform like it looked. I would prefer if they actually made the leaf...

Nissan and Tesla are both waiting on new battery technology, and Nissan believes the nickel magnesium cobalt chemistry they are working on will almost double the range without significantly increasing cost. That could bring the Leaf into 120-140 EPA mile range and if things work out that way...

That may be true for some people who are inclined to surf the net and connect all the tidbits of information they need to be knowledgeable about electric cars, but I believe the videos I describe would benefit not just owners, but those people who are shopping for new cars because it would be a...

I just recently leased a leaf, and my experience is that it felt quite haphazard. The functioning of the car, features, limitations, charging station installation, and other things were not thoroughly explained by the salesperson. It would have taken an hour for all the novelty of an electric...

I don't drive much, and hardly use the range, so I like to turn off Eco and use D mode. Went long distance once and just used Eco mode, don't like B mode because I like to drift to save energy. My only complaint with D and Eco off is I wish that the brake wasn't so solid and only have ~1 inch...

I think electric cars will continue to improve significantly every 1-2 years, and people buying electric cars today are paying a premium to be first adopters. I will continue leasing economy electric cars when the incentives make it so economical, and delay buying until electric cars use good...

I want future Nissan electric car platforms to have: 1. A wide variety of battery capacity options to choose from. If a platform is able to accept different sized battery packs under the car then it can bring in people into the market when they might otherwise be at fringes of the car's range...

I got a red leaf, even though I like bright colors in a car for less heat absorption. My reasoning was a bright leaf makes the zero emissions logos stand out and when they see it they may get grumpy, but a red car invites people to just look at the shape of the car and when they see the bulbous...