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I am not talking about the heater in a 1954 Apache! I am talking about a modern, highly efficient heater that could greatly increase the cold weather range of a BEV like a Leaf in cold, winter seasons.

OK, so we know that BEV range gets hammered during cold days, particularly in climates that experience cold winters. We know that there are heaters that consume fossil fuels, but do so in a highly efficient manner- more efficiently than an internal combustion engine. Why not put a fossil fuel...

What software were you using to generate that nice looking map with the elevation change profile?

Thanks for looking into that. As an aside, I went to visit Todd today at the Elgin, IL Nissan dealership to test drive the Leaf. Nice guy, nice car. It seemed like a pretty nice dealership to do business with. He says they will be selling the cars for sticker.

Did he let you take it out by yourself or did he come along for the ride? Any sales pressure?

I got the following response concerning the Volt: The amount of the rebate for the Chevy Volt is 10% of the base retail price of the vehicle as reflected on the MSRP, not including add-on equipment options, up to $4000.   Mary Cruse Clean Air Programs IEPA [email protected] Redleaf -...

Thanks. I'll drop her an e-mail and report back.

Thanks for that link! Before I dig myself, do you know off hand if cars like the Volt qualify for this rebate?

Ditto on the phone call. I wasn't home so they left a message. I am probably not going to go through with the purchase after having read many threads on this forum. I am concerned about our winters in the Midwest. The range hit concerns me. Also, the fact that my Leaf would sometimes be...

Interesting........thanks for that.

I'm primarily interested in buying an electric car to help rid our (i.e. the Western world's) dependence on foreign oi from unfriendly nations. I would put some general statistics on there about how much oil we import from OPEC, how much less oil we need if we stopped using cars powered by...

I'm not putting solar on my house.....or at least not in the up and coming years. I'm just talking theoretical so I can understand how to build and design one. I was just trying to build a theoretical system using parts I'm finding on the internet so I can LEARN about solar. That's it...

Cool, I'll check out the site but I was trying to "design" a theoretical system myself to understand what a system would look like.

He-he.....that's assuming there is a plug in said parking lot!

It would be nice to know how much electricity this battery heater would draw per 24 hours of sitting in a Chicago parking lot in the dead of winter, in say a week of 0F weather, unplugged. It would suck if you drove it to the airport with enough charge to get home, vacationed in Mexico to...