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I agree with Daniel and some others about Nissan's customer relations. I have so many questions that still need to be answered before I can make an informed buying decision.

If you have a conventional IRA (or other tax-deferred accounts like 401K), you can roll this money into a Roth IRA. This will increase your taxable income and tax so that you can take the entire tax credit. If you have planned your retirement well, you will save by not paying future taxes on...

A more reasonable approach

Edmunds says 37 mpg using gasoline only.

The Volt is an impostor. It is not an EV. It is a hybrid that only gets 37 EPA mpg when running on PREMIUM gas.

September

In the Web video of the display panel operation that was posted today. The display showed the average driving range as " 27.3 miles/kWh ". :o But on the same screen, it also showed the Instant range as varying from 0 to 8 miles/kWh.

Test drives will not occur until September or after.

Top right button says "Map" but "voice is on the same button underneath "Map" label.

I took the interior image into Photoshop.

The Nissan Leaf Info Screen at: http://green.autoblog.com/photos/nissan-leaf-info-screens/full/#3195511 may give us a clue about the A/C energy use. First the climate control shows a Kw scale of 0 to 6. Second, the screen has the following message "Turn on Climate Control for -22 miles". When...

This morning I received the following email: Your approved for the EV Project. Congratulations you have been approved for your home charging unit and installation as part of the U.S. government's EV Project. You will be contacted by ECOtality in the near future to discuss the next steps and...

Your logic is valid and reasonable.

Nissan Leaf design team member told me that Cd was 0.28.

I received the same message as Carlos (except the name) at about noon today. Disappointing.

For Charge Stations Tax credit equaling 50% of the cost to install an EV charge station, with a maximum $2,000 credit for each station installed. So total cost could be up to $4,000 and still receive full 50% credit.

Thank you, evnow.

Battery guru a skeptic about Leaf, Volt batteries 27-May-2010 Anderman of the Leaf battery. “Can you expect 10 years from the battery? Definitely not in Phoenix. If it lasts three years, I’d be surprised.” http://www.sae.org/mags/aei/8299 I hope he is wrong. If true, Phoenix will not have...

AndyH, I talked to Paul Hawson, a Nissan product planner. He said that the Nissan had no active thermal management system. And he stated that all heat was dissipated by conduction through the metal battery case. He stated that the temperature rise was only 2 to 3 degrees above the ambient...

Mark Perry, Nissan’s director of product planning for the United States, dismissed the importance of active thermal management. “We don’t need thermal management for the U.S., but we are looking at the technology for Dubai and other locations like that…. We’ve gone on the record saying that the...