ILETRIC said:
Or, Santa Rosa - 35 freeway miles away. Round trip is pretty iffy, and wife is not keen on coming back on electron fumes. You know, it takes nerves of steel and some cold calculation. You wanna make it home before the turtle mode kicks in. Done that twice and it's no fun.
I'd pay anything for extra 15 kW on that car. I love that car. It's the best thing in transportation that ever happened. Oh, and btw, I bought it to commute to work. It was supposed to be a 100-mile car. My job commute is 84 freeway miles. Charged clandestinely at work (paid for the juice though) until the Sutter hospital administrator found out and threw me out, wrote me up, and accused me of pilfering juice (the hospital resources). Ha-ha! After 2 decades on the job I'm a thief now. So, wife and kid drive it now. They want their range comfort zone. One bar won't do.
That's why bigger battery would be sweet, and that stupid 6.6 on top.
I hear you man, I hear you. Watching your return trip vanish on the Cotati grade would be no fun.
If I sell this car (game called on account of ActiveE), the prospective owner will be required to sign a hold harmless agreement and to be screened by me, you know the way Nissan should have, by you know, telling the truth about how far you can go in the car.
I have this sneaking (and sinking) feeling that Nissan is going to wish it had been a little more, ahem, forthcoming about the affects freeway travel and most particularly temperature have on the effective range of this vehicle.
Nissan may not "care" about those folks that need more range, but sleazy car dealers and not caring can lead to bad things for a company.