Recent content by VTLeaf

Hyundai/Kia making some very good products!

We wanted/needed more range and got impatient waiting for the Niro EV or 60kW Leaf. Niro looks to be small batches only for the foreseeable future, and were bummed about the staid (and dark) interior of the new Leaf -- it lost all its charm! So we sold our much-loved 2013 SV on Craigslist and...

Lots of dealers consider it bad business for them to negotiate online -- it lets you sit at your keyboard and toss them lowball #s; if they say no they've lost a potential customer, if they say okay you take it to another/more local dealer and ask them to match it. Negotiating online undercuts...

https://cleantechnica.com/page/3/ Now on sale on Korea, as planned. Lots of nice standard stuff. Range for 60+kw version apparently downgraded. US launch apparently pushed to q1 of 2019 as well? One smile and two frowns if that’s all true (info on their US website hasn’t changed). Korean...

100% agree! The Outlander was of course on the far end of the spectrum, but this isn't my first rodeo so I automatically add a few months mentally. That said the big question is how many they'll make and where they'll ship them. I'm not expecting particularly good news in either of those, but...

Kia's US website now has a page dedicated to the 2019 Niro EV: https://www.kia.com/us/en/content/vehicles/upcoming-vehicles/2019-niro-ev It says "The all-new 2019 Kia Niro EV has debuted internationally, expanding upon the Niro model family of hybrid crossovers and is set to arrive in the US at...

That looks awesome! Love the creative/open cargo space up front, and the **regen paddles** on the steering wheel! I've been considering a Bolt to replace our Leaf, but might hold out for this even if it's a year or two, based on the slightly better cargo space (more horizontal, less vertical)...

agree it's a totally tapioca look, but like the interior size (only slightly smaller than the Leaf, which is better than the Bolt), range, and 80kW charging rate. Won't have the pep of a Bolt but hopefully won't have the degradation of a Leaf either. Hope these come out sooner and in larger...

Did anyone come up with a fix for this? I'm considering trying to touch mine up for private sale. Graphite? :)

I'll miss the quirky-but-friendly character of Gen I as well. Always makes me smile to see one -- which happens increasingly often even in Vermont. This thing looks like a bar of soap did it with a skunk. Maybe I'll like it in different colors/different angles -- but not a lot of charm as far...

We just bought an off-lease '14 CMax Energi for $15k. Navigation, moonroof, heated leather power seats -- nice car! The miles should cover either me or my wife on a daily basis except for maybe January here in Vermont :) I'd been tracking the plug-in varieties of Niro and Ioniq and then...

Agreed -- we just traded our Prius V for an off-lease CMax Energi (our other car is a Leaf) because we wanted to drive electric as much as possible -- but as devoted as I am to that with a young family and wife who makes unpredictable road trips for work, it's not yet sensible enough to move to...

Sibelman, how were your results with PIAA? Paul, what did you end up doing? I'm amazed at how poor the OEM wipers are on my new-to-me '13 and am normally a refill guy, but figure I'm not exactly giving up a perfect fit if I toss the OEM assemblies. I'd like to get PIAA assemblies and then use...

that looks like how someone who can't draw (like myself) draws a car. Or the hippo - that's awesome, redleaf!

Thanks ishi, I'll add that to the mental hopper!