Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
I am all for electric cars and trucks. Who needs liquid fuel if electricity will do. The problem is that only relatively small minority of vehicles can get along with an 80 or 100 mile driving range.
One of the write ups on the Leaf attempting a max range "real world" test (with air conditioning on), driving from Nashville (the future manufacturing plant of the Leaf). He went over 130 miles. Tesla has a car coming out that will go over 200 miles. The range will go up in relatively short order. The Leaf is step 1.
The data Nissan has says that some HUGE number of the drivers go less than 100 miles a day. The majority. The problem is convincing the public of that. Fortunately, they only need to convince about 100,000 a year of 300 million Americans
The car is to be built in Japan now, then Nashville, and England.
I worry about the pedestrians with too many of those things coming through.
I went to the test drive event in San Diego last week, and yes, you can get run over. Nissan is putting "noise makers" in the production car. You can turn it off, but you have to do that every time you "start" the car. You can't hear the noise maker in the car.