Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:34 pm
I'm going to go against the grain here, and say that I hope Nissan does offer something this sporty and low with a BEV powertrain and a 60kWh battery. It doesn't have to be the next Leaf, but didn't Ghosn say that the Leaf could become a "family" like the current Prius? I hope that one of them is a sports car.
In some respects, I do like that my 2012 Leaf is very upright; it makes loading and unloading the kids much easier. But on the other hand, it makes driving it much more bland and disconnected from the road. In my case, my kids will be out of car seats by the time I buy my next EV, so loading and unloading is much less of an issue. And I'm on the shorter side, and a bit agoraphobic when it comes to my cars. I want them to fit me like a glove, with little to no "excess" space. This combines with my obsession for efficiency, and the larger the vehicle, the more the drag.
Anyway, maybe someday someone will make a compact sporty BEV with a 200+ mile range. The IDS is one of the closest things I've seen to that goal (others are the Delta Wing and the ES Flow concepts)
~Brian
EV Fleet:
2011 Torqeedo Travel 1003 electric outboard on a 22' sailboat
2012 Leaf SV (traded for Bolt)
2015 C-Max Energi (302A package)
2017 Bolt Premier