Recent content by Clippy

I agree with you, and so does CARB (scary thought, huh?). As I frequently tell anyone who's listening (and thinking), it's not how far the EV can go, it's what happens at the end of the charge that matters. I too have to take frequent trips of >400 miles. Currently no EV does this in a fashion...

No, but it did a darn fine job of burying all the posts discussing something as non-ethereal as how much the darn thing costs. Where is our favorite BMW "Ambassador," anyway? From the looks of the latest Tesla "Business Lease" he could be working over there, too.

It's April 1st, right? http://www.bmwblog.com/2014/03/31/bmw-i3-bottom-line-494mo-money/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lol! Who the heck knows? From what I can gather, the above figures are either a "Flex" or Non-Flex arrangement. What is certain is that you take $23,489.28 (Total of Payments) and add $5000 (Customer Cap Reduction) to it, then divide it by 36 you get $791.37, which is right around the figure I...

In case anyone is interested in what an "actual" lease/purchase arrangement for a particular vehicle would be, I provide the following, received by me today from a dealer contacted by me today way up here in the Great Northwest, where it isn't raining for a change. 2014 BMW i3 MSRP 50,875...

Good for them! And a further kudos for not going for the lower payment option bandied about here and telling you that this nebulous $7500 is coming from you or us (not US-A). They still fail to mention your "Scheduled Final Payment" amount of $20,000 or so if you pay the $7500 up front and...

I think the price is too high currently and will remain so for a bit. They could be trying to control supply in this country with this scheme. Anytime you take some of the dealer's fudge factor numbers away from them, they can't be happy. As I discussed with my dealer, we used to call this...

We never got to any real "hard" numbers, but it was north of $700 with a bunch of Bens down. I remember one scenario where the figure was over $900. The residuals were awful and the resultant monthly was high because of it. So, we spent nearly an hour playng with the numbers to see how high we...

That's true. The obfuscation coming from BMW and its minions concerning something as simple as the answer to "What's this thing going to cost?" leads me to believe that this whole scheme is not just half-baked but hiding something besides the price of admission. Could be they don't even want to...

From Electronaut to Electro-not in just 24 short months. When I think of what just a small group of you fine folks could have done with access to the BMW parts bin and their engineering and design staff, it makes the i3 look really, really bad. Needless to say I won't be a customer of their...

Thanks, Tom. This vehicle gets uglier and uglier the more I see of it. I honestly can't think of any angle you could photograph this thing from to make it even look like a car. The video of it going though corners is enough to make me go out and kiss my 3 wheeled beach bicycle as a pillar of...

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Your experience is very similar to mine. The reaction of others to what should be seen as a normal, logical action on your part is also very similar to the one I received several months ago (Except I'm a "liar" and "obtuse."). I found this reaction surprisingly similar to the reactions I...

Well said. I believe that Nissan should have provided a battery upgrade/replacement path for this vehicle. Nissan's response to this crisis is also patterned along the lines of "conventional" automotive models. They made an effort to describe this "paradigm shift" in the description of the...

Welcome and grid your loins. My Leaf was delivered in April 2011. I started noticing a decrease in the range of the vehicle almost immediately. I first brought this to the attention of a dealer in September of 2011 because the ~70 mile 50/50 freeway/country lane journey for which I purchased...