Recent content by Sasparilla

Tony, thanks for making this test happen and posting the results. 100lbs less weight and it turns out we get less range in real world tests for the 2013's, ugh. I was thinking of the cheaper lower torque motor and associated tuning as well when I saw those results. Bummer.

Just to clarify Nissan actually has a separate factory that will come online in 2013 for Europe (talk about putting the money down on this vehicle) and that is in Sunderland, UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf#Production

I don't find the carping surprising at all based on what Fox News has broadcast previously with regards to plug-ins. I think for alot of us our eyes and ears have been scorched by what Fox News has done to the Leaf initially and the Volt in particular recently. Maybe some of the public...

Just to be correct: Actually it wasn't Panasonic that owned the patents - it was General Motors who had a controlling interest (a bit over 50%) of the battery company (Ovonic) that owned the patents to the NiMH. Once GM decided they didn't want to be in EV's, besides destroying all the EV1's...

Good points Ingineer and evnow that the current ordering process is holding back some sales. That said, 20k for the year is going to be an extremely tough goal - at this point I just want to see the Leaf get back above 1000 sales a month (much less 2000 a month). Now, January was bound to be a...

Back on the topic here. Ghosn's talk of 20k sales expectations in the US doesn't square very well with Feb's sales numbers (~500), which is very disappointing. Hopefully numbers will pop back up in March - the tough nut in this is that there are now two other HOV vehicles being delivered...

Wow, I was just reading about their sales coming back up last month and now they're shutting production down? I read that they were just starting to deliver their first HOV Volts and that Europe whom they just started producing for had close to 6000 orders....some of this does not make sense...

GM just idled the Volt plant for 5 weeks. http://www.freep.com/article/20120302/BUSINESS0101/120302035/Volt-production-on-hold-for-5-weeks?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; With sales up and the first Volts that are HOV sticker capable just...

Wow, obviously Ford isn't going after the Leaf, which is too bad as it has nice looks - just getting their feet wet I suppose. The Focus Electric was actually thought up, designed and pitched to Ford management by a very smart Canadian supplier (Magna) who knew there would be vehicle...

We're nowhere close to a plateau in battery technology. I remember, before the Volt and the Leaf were finally delivered, both companies had mentioned they were already testing batteries with twice the energy density of what would be in the Volt / Leaf. This increase in capacity as well as...

I totally did miss that, wow. I basically haven't been following things since it looked like the end of 2012 at the earliest... Thank you for bringing me up to date EVNOW.

After all the details of delivery schedules and rollout states that were done over the past year, I'd resigned myself (in Illinois Chicago suburbs, the forgotten 36) to probably not being able to order my Leaf until the middle of 2012 with it being produced in Smyrna (?) TN. So I was shocked to...

Based on what I've read about the Blink's being on the blink since they rolled out I would venture that saying they skipped Beta testing is being way too generous. I would move that they shortchanged their component testing (when you have the individual pieces of software being built and...

Wow, 63,000 and you're still getting 100 mile range on the RAV4EV...that's just amazing when looking at the stated range of the Leaf at its starting point and all the talk of the range bleeding down over time. What a vehicle the original RAV4-EV was/is. I look forward to any comparisons you...

This would seem to put a damper on the driver left the vehicle on theory... The discussion brings up a good point, after having owned two Fob'ed vehicles, I would pay a good amount for a key option on my future vehicles, just to rule out the possible & confusion issues Fob's create. Question...