Recent content by jlsoaz

I don't have one. I see that the nearly two hour long town hall video is still up. I suppose if possible, if someone wants it, they might want to make an archive of that at this time.

Your reasoning is good in my opinion. It's been awhile since I thought about it, but in 2012 I went to a Chevy dealer to lease a Volt and sat inside the vehicle and decided against it, called my Nissan dealer and leased a Leaf. There were too many factors that went into my decision (I probably...

As I've attempted to put forth previously (and I"m not sure if anyone responded on this point), in the here and now, the availability of and market for PHEVs is not just dependent on demand and the different factors that influence that demand (including cost of fuel, subjective intangibles...

What an excellent hard-hitting comment on how much damage so many mainstream economists have done by their supposed defenses of capitalism and their opposition to taxes on so-called externalities...

I agree with a decent portion of this thinking. With PHEVs only presently working with available high carbon fuels, and true zero-carbon drop-in replacement affordable widely-distributed fuels not being ready for market, we seem to be headed toward BEV only. IMO things would be best clarified...

Thanks, I'll take any information I can get on this, and it is good to have this. I have informally partnered with a few other advocates in the Tucson/Ambos_Nogales/Hermosillo area and part of the point is to do what little we can to advocate for greening the cactus highways between, in and...

I can't help but wonder, as the years pass, and a few more Leafs get sold into Mexico (where Nissan has a very large market share in light duty vehicles), how will those batteries hold up? I don't know. Maybe they will be fine, but it seems like a very hot environment to try to find out. I...

Yup. I remember thinking around 2013 that I was more than a little skeptical of where things were going. While they were getting what were significant amounts of money every month from me, could they at least show a sign that they were aware that some customers really wanted bigger batteries...

Thank you for posting this. Somewhere I have a video of me pestering a Nissan rep in 2010, from a passenger seat, before the Leaf was available on the market, and part of it is pestering them about the battery warranty. Nissan didn't fully get the matter, but many of us in the industry knew...

This is in my view a good hard-hitting test and commentary on a 2018 Nissan Leaf. It doesn't seem to have the bigger battery pack, but I like several things here including that the tester gives a point of view from the American Southwest, and that they do not pull punches in the end. Their...

The lens that I see the overall EV markets story through has for a long time included the overall idea that the market is supply-constrained for "the good stuff" (the long range BEVs). This lens I think has served me well to have a sense of what's going on, but I think this lens also may serve...

Thanks for these comments on the tax in your area. Admittedly it's not directly to question of the original poster (it's arguably more inline with a different thread that's going on), but I've been trying for a long time to keep my eyes open for anecdotal points like this, or any other...

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that the old tech will have a very small niche, at least for awhile, but the question of the thread is about trying to gauge a tech to see if it is transitional or longer-lasting. In the case of cfl tech, it appears (from what little I know) to have been merely...

Yup, agree with this pretty strongly. I knew better than to go this long way around, but somehow I ended up as an example. Got into a Leaf in 2012 (I knew it was a lame short range BEV), and then out of the frying pan and into the fire in a Volt in 2017. Finally bit the financial bullet and...