jcesare
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Nissan gets New York's taxi business
http://t.co/S7JifUv
http://t.co/S7JifUv
TRONZ said:Under a 10 year contract, I would bet the EV option on these vans sealed the deal. It's a very nice choice with gas prices going up... possibly for good!
Herm said:This is a huge coup for Nissan, the iconic cab for the world's capital. The glass roof is interesting, hopefully it wont look like hell all scratched up after a few years of use... The typical NY taxi gets driven about 10k miles a year, and they are replaced every 3 years, perfect for a BEV I would think.
By 2017, Nissan will be able to manufacture the cars to run solely on electricity, New York City Hall said in a statement.Herm said:TRONZ said:Under a 10 year contract, I would bet the EV option on these vans sealed the deal. It's a very nice choice with gas prices going up... possibly for good!
There is no EV option, Nissan will provide 6 Leaf taxis for experimental use, also with a mobile charging solution.
Avg of less than 5 miles a trip. More than 50% idle time. Just need 2, 30 minute fast charges per day.Herm said:shifts are 10 hours, 30 trips, 141 miles a day
evnow said:Avg of less than 5 miles a trip. More than 50% idle time. Just need 2, 30 minute fast charges per day.Herm said:shifts are 10 hours, 30 trips, 141 miles a day
Officially Nissan tells us not to fast charge more than once a day. They think in 8 years the capacity will be a few % less if fast charge is frequently used.GrumpyCabbie said:I really do worry what damage one 30 min fast charge would do to the car if used daily or even 2 or 3 times a week.
evnow said:Officially Nissan tells us not to fast charge more than once a day. They think in 8 years the capacity will be a few % less if fast charge is frequently used.GrumpyCabbie said:I really do worry what damage one 30 min fast charge would do to the car if used daily or even 2 or 3 times a week.
I think for cooler places like yours, fast charge would have even less of an impact.
But the bigger question of too many miles per year and thus reducing # of years of active service before the battery needs to be replaced would be one concern. But I expect the battery to cost lesser in the future (may be $5K in 5 years ?) and the replacement cost needs to be factored into any financial calculations.
Well, 100 miles per charge would come out to 500,000 miles...not really a reasonable estimate since 100 miles is very optimistic and the range per charge will decrease over time. If you could average 70 miles per charge over time, 5000 charges would be 350,000 miles. 60 miles would be 300,000 miles. My question is what does end of service life mean? 50% of capacity left?GrumpyCabbie said:You say the question of miles a year comes into the service life. I'm sure I've read the battery has a life of about 5,000 charges which would amount to 13 years of service life. But what mileage life could I expect from the battery? 60k miles, 80k?, 120k miles?
I know no definite answer can be given but surely some enlightened members will have a good educated guess.
It has now changed back to 6jamesanne said:Now they are going from 6 to 100 LEAFs!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20059656-54.html
Where did you read about the # of charges ? 5,000 looks high.GrumpyCabbie said:You say the question of miles a year comes into the service life. I'm sure I've read the battery has a life of about 5,000 charges which would amount to 13 years of service life. But what mileage life could I expect from the battery? 60k miles, 80k?, 120k miles?
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