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Details: I started from Palo Alto, CA with full charge and drove to Los Gatos, CA, picked up two passengers. Then started trip to Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton in San Jose, CA. Elevation according to wikipedia was 4,209 ft. Check : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_observatory"...

Last weekend, I made my longest LEAF trip in one day - 201 miles. Longest leg without charging was 80 miles from Los Gatos, CA to Vallejo (about 15 miles away from Napa, CA) with 2 stops in the middle at Berkeley. When I arrived at Vallejo Nissan I had about 15 miles left on dashboard range. I...

The other day I heard an interesting program on NPR about electric trucks being built in NY. NPR Cartalk has an interesting article on large cost savings with electric truck fleets as studied by MIT...

I just heard speech by Professor Mark Z. Jacobson at Stanford University on this. There was recent paper by him in Scientific American on details as well. Electric cars are mentioned as main ingredient for transportation in this plan. I thought this is very relevant for all those saying that...

I was just told that my Leaf arrived at the dealer - Boardwalk Nissan in Redwood City. Several months ago I had placed order with them for base SV model with no options and agreed on price. Now at the last minute the dealer and Nissan say that somehow my car got changed from SV to the more...