

Nissan LEAF
Nissan to be aggressive with LEAF pricing








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Too expensive
By corduroygt on 2/12/2010 11:36:01 AM , Rating: 2
for a glorified golf cart

How am I supposed to drive to NY from DC in 20 degree weather in this thing? With a prius, I'd just gas up and go.

RE: Too expensive
By Brovane on 2/12/2010 1:17:14 PM , Rating: 2
You cannot. This is really a second car that is optimized for short commutes. It wasn't built to meet everyone's driving needs. I commute a total of 25 miles a day to work. This would be a great car to replace my daily commuter car.

RE: Too expensive
By corduroygt on 2/12/2010 3:33:47 PM , Rating: 2
The extra insurance and payments to get this as a second car over just having a single car would never pay off.
People seem to forget, asking people to buy two cars is environmentally FAR WORSE than buying a single regular car.

RE: Too expensive
By namechamps on 2/12/2010 3:59:28 PM , Rating: 2
Most families are 2 (or 3) car families already.

For example me and my wife own a car. We could replace ONE of our TWO cars with this vehicle and substantially reduce emissions & energy use while still having one long range vehicle.

Even if you only replaced all the "second vehicles" in 2 car households that would be tens of millions of vehicles.

For lots of other families who travel beyond the max range so rarely you could have only an EV and use a rental car when needing to travel extended differences.

Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work.

RE: Too expensive
By Keeir on 2/13/2010 12:01:22 PM , Rating: 2
You know... i think the whole "2" car thing will not turn out as people intend. A great number of 2 car households are 2 working member households. In such situations, both cars need to be full cars. Why? Well for many of the people who could use BEV in such a situation should already be able to ride share or use buses etc. Not all, but the difference between doesn't need a car and doesn't need a full car will likely result in a small group.

BEVs will not be considered full cars (in the US) until real-life range is significantlly more than 100 miles or one can grab 10-20 miles of range per minute.

BEVs can work as a communter car (or even cars) in a household/situation where there is an extremely high availibility rate of a full car and driver. If I had a stay at home wife, I could see getting a BEV for myself and letting her have the full gas car. (I could never do it the other way around. A 30-35 mile radius range is just not acceptable)

RE: Too expensive
By jimbojimbo on 2/15/2010 3:55:52 PM , Rating: 2
Rent a car for those trips.

