Mr Matt
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| Plug it in, where?  Where will the new Leaf owner plug in their car to recharge? Even in a single family home the new owner will probably have to install a 240 Volt outlet to plug the charger into. If one lives in a rental or condominium development they will be SOOL. (S&*T out of luck). It will take many years to develop the infrastructure to permit recharging for homeowners in multifamily buildings. The only place where there might be some hope is in Alaska and extreme northern cities where there is an outlet at every parking meter to plug in engine block heaters. |
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 Duramax08A Challenger AppearsPremium
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San Antonio, TX | the volt seems to be better since it gots a onboard generator. |
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Riverside, NJ
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The Leaf can be charged in a standard 110 Volt outlet. It just takes longer to charge.
»www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-···charging
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said by Duramax08:the volt seems to be better since it gots a onboard generator. It's also costs $8,000 more.
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stridr69
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San Luis Obispo, CA | reply to Duramax08
Volt requires PREMIUM gas. What a $40,000 joke. |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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Then I think you answered your own question.. the leaf isn't going to be the idea car for everyone. |
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said by Alcohol:said by Duramax08:the volt seems to be better since it gots a onboard generator. It's also costs $8,000 more. They will actually sell the new version?
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Cheyenne, WY
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said by fiberguy:Then I think you answered your own question.. the leaf isn't going to be the idea car for everyone. So true for Wyoming the Volt just will not work. In my state we think nothing of driving a 100 or more miles just to shop.
I have a vision of a person sitting in a lawn chair under an umbrella sipping a ice tea in the middle of no-where with a Honda portable generator humming away charging the battery on his Volt. 
They had a segment on PBS Motorweek about Onstar. As part of it they showed to smartphone/iPhone app for managing the the Volt. it was fascinating. It will be interesting to have an automobile that is a part of the modern telecom system. being able to access you car. While sitting at you office desk you can interrogate the car as to how much fuel it has, if it needs service, battery state, remote starting, I am sure all of you can think of even more things. I have the absurd though of the RIAA suing leaf, and Volt owner for illegal downloads. 
The bottom line is the Volt and the Leaf will only sell in tiny numbers, there is a $7600 dollar tax credit for it's purchase and that is nothing more the a federal rebate program that we are all paying for will be what sells these cars. Municipalities that get pork barrel earmarks will purchase them, so they can look green, and people with more money then brains will get these cars. Don't get me wrong I like the idea of these cars but the battery technology is just not here yet. The car I think is the future is the Honda FCX Clarity.
»automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/
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Mr Matt
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Hybrid vehicles are not the solution for every driver. At the end of 2006 my wife purchased a Lexus RX-400H Hybrid. It made sense because she drove 25 Miles each way in heavy traffic. Her previous vehicle a Volvo Cross Country got 14 Miles to the gallon and required premium fuel. The RX-400H got 26 Miles to the gallon of mid premium fuel in heavy traffic. When we moved to Central Florida the fuel mileage dropped to 20 Miles to the gallon. That is because we do most of our driving at over 30 Miles per hour which is outside of the RX-400H's most efficient speed and the internal combustion engine ran most of the time. We decided to replaced the RX-400H in 2009 with an RX-350 which is not a hybrid vehicle because the RX-450H cost about $7,000.00 more. We are satisfied with the RX-350 because we are getting 19 Miles to the gallon and would have never been able to pay back the increased cost of the RX-450H. Until hybrid vehicles show higher fuel mileage under all driving conditions they should only be purchased by drivers that can receive the maximum benefit a hybrid vehicle can provide due to their driving habits. |
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