Recent content by Rokeby

Thanks for your input. We have to be careful about trying to compare the pre-production car you drove and the current version that I've driven, three times now. I know more now than when I visited last Saturday, and I have been able to closely read the Owner/User Manual. So, I'm going to...

My visit to the Eurostar THINK City dealership in Randallstown, MD. The THINK is an assault on your sensibilities from the very beginning. It is disorienting to see these cars at a dealership whose stock in trade is second hand luxury cars with Ferraris, Maseratis, Mercedes, a Bentley, and...

Although the specifics of the mechanism is fuzzy to me, it is possible that the dealer to buyer "incentive' is based on a Nissan to dealer incentive. This wouldn't suggest that the dealer was in some financial difficulty. The dealer may get price reductions from Nissan if they sell a given...

I did get over to Eurostar and test drove the THINK City, twice in fact. As to ease of entry, I'm 6' 1", 215 lbs, and I had a companion 6' 2", 265 lbs, and we had no trouble with ingress/egress. I drive an '08 Prius and I'd say access is about the same, maybe slightly easier in the THINK...

Holy cow! The Maryland dealer is about 12 miles from me! I'm going to try to get over there on Saturday and try to get a test drive. "Just plug in your home outlet and let charge overnight like your cell phone... Good for 100 miles per charge... • Air Bag" !!?? Any specific questions that...

Personally, I'm leary of the permanence of the plastic overhead assist handle, even if it is screwed into a receiver attached to the roof. I think the plastic handle in the rear seat of a car is well suited for holding the weight of hanging clothing… but not more. Fortunately, there is a...

Mitsubishi Shows Off Its Bubbly i-MiEV Sport Air Concept at the New York Auto Show. For me this is bittersweet; after all these years, the Sport Air is still just a "concept car." Inhabitat did a report on the Sport Air in 2006. Their final comment at that time was: Whether or not this...

Time to take a breather. Not making fun here, just a reminder that at the beginning of the auto-mobile ICE age, dispensing fuel was a catch as catch can business. Apparently it took 50 years (1880-1930) for there to be a gas pump even remotely like the convenient almost foolproof pumps that...

lol :lol: Is this the same Mr. Tony Williams that once he had the unlimited power from the Thane C. Heins device was able to reach escape velocity in his LEAF and landed on the moon. And when he reported back finding no evidence of the Apollo 11 moon landing had his library card, driver's...

Somewhat related: It's in eastern Oregon; covers 2200 acres, may be 2400 years old. http://www.extremescience.com/biggest-living-thing.htm http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fungus1.html Considerably more imposing than the "fairy rings" you may see in lawns and forests in many locations...

"Nissan LEAF Aero Style" motorward But no claim of better aero efficiency.

Note that the claim is to use 10 gallons of gasoline, not 10 gallons of fuel. From the article: I think he's referring to the small amount of "conventional gasoline" in the E95. If E95 means 95% ethanol and 5% gasoline, he's talking about 200 gallons of fuel, but only 10 gallons of gas...

Driving a Prius -- or any car for that matter -- for better than EPA fuel economy typically involves using a tactic called "driving without brakes." Of course you do have brakes, but you allow for some extra space ahead and try to anticipate stops well ahead so that you can glide up to it...

Q. Are all types of electric car batteries potential victims of total irreversible failure? A. All batteries will eventually fail if left to drain slowly for many years, but bricking is avoidable with a fail-safe provision that could sustain some level of charge for years. Nissan said in a...

Whether or not you find this article from Low Tech Magazinel meaningful, the author has done an admirable job of bringing together numerous sources for info on the many early electric vehicles on the roads from 1895 to 1925. Just for fun, here are some interesting sources, from the article...