Recent content by cBeam

I tried to extend a 3y lease on a 2015 Leaf S, lease maturity date is 1/1/2018. The rep in Nissan's lease call center told me - after talking to her supervisor - that they offer no incentives in my case as the lease is mature in 2018. So no extension with free months for me (I can extend until...

Leo, the Internet sales guy at Boardwalk Nissan who posted here apparently left the RWC dealership. I hoped for a hassle free deal, exchange an email or two, and then pick up the car without surprises. Now my emails do no get answered, but the sales guys want to call me and bring me in, without...

Just to be clear, I understood that the author thinks "an extra 3kW would be amazing" because maybe the sluggish acceleration would improve. At no time did I make the connection that he meant and additional 3kWh battery capacity. So the author's assumption that everyone understood what he meant...

"We decided"? Pluralis Maiestatis? - I am sorry, I was not aware that this is your private thread. [And yes, I am being snarky here]. "Quotes from normally wrong autobloggers?" - Better read the source before you belittle what other people write: As you stated this table compares a BEV...

Thanks Tony, this is very interesting and provides good numbers. As many of us stated BEVs look way better in terms of overall GHG emissions ("well to wheel") than electric cars with fuel cells. To wait until 2050 to get parity between BEVs and FCEVs is so far out that predictions are absurd. I...

AndyH, <timeout> here. Please reflect for one moment on your posts on this page and the one before. It is very hard to follow what you want to say because you are all over the map and it is not clear to what you refer to in a particular thought. This thread is titled "Hydrogen and FCEV", yet in...

AndyH, also without snark: I'd be interested to see a "less expensive / more profitable" hydrogen application that is not based on burning fossils in some way. In any case I know that battery development is not going to slow down any time soon, so hydrogen will continue to have competition...

AndyH, I don't understand what you are arguing. There is no doubt in my mind that we need to get off the oil burning habit. Or the fossil fuel habit overall, for many reasons (we run out of it, climate change, real costs of burning C (not only the cost we pay today, but also the cost of...

It's interesting, based on your post I went to the eVgo website and looked up their QCs ("Freedom Stations") in and very close to San Francisco. They only show 3 QC stations. The eVgo mapping tool places the Daly City station right next to San Francisco Zoo (pretty far away from I-280), however...

I looked at the link you provided and it seems that there are $82,898,000 available (more that $82 Million). Should be more than 25 rebates (unless you expect $3.5 Mio in rebates. If I get $3.5 Mio in rebates I'd take 25 cars, thank you very much).

I am still not convinced. Yes, there will always be short range EVs, however I doubt that they will quick charge on public QCs in significant numbers if they have to pay a price that covers all cost. They likely will prefer to charge L2 at home or at work. Now this thread started out because...

Sure, but what does this have to do with quick charging? They will still use L2 at home or at work, and not shell out the higher prices to quick charge in significant numbers. The price of QC needs to come down, which means lower capital cost, and high utilization to spread capital cost...

I fear there is no real business model to offer a dense net of public quick charging stations: - The vast majority of EVs will charge at home over night of a cost if let's say $0.10 per kWh or less. - Looking forward, the range of EVs will increase, so even less need to "fill up" while on the...

Do you really think a petition signed by non-German internet users will have an affect on the German legislature? On the contrary, if a petition is signed by individuals who are minimally impacted by the issue because many (most) of them do not pay taxes in Germany, then the whole petition will...

Priscilla, you might want to spell check what you wrote. Or do you mean it? :p