Nissan Leaf Availability To Be Limited, Too
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The Leaf is Nissan’s all-electric car. Nissan is doing some pretty interesting things with marketing the car (more on this later), but at first, like it’s competitor the Volt, it’ll only be sold in select markets at first. These markets are Oregon, California, Arizona and Tennessee.
Like we saw with General Motors’ EV1 experiment and their limited release of the Volt, only select West Coast states are getting the car, in addition to Tennessee, where Nissan’s headquarters is. However, there is another reason that these select states are getting the car early. Gizmodo reports that they’re members of the “EV project” which have existing infrastructure and data-gathering facilities for electric vehicles.
In addition to those states, Texas and Hawaii will get the Leaf in January 2011. Most of the east coast will get the Leaf in April 2011 – and the rest of the country will get the Nissan Leaf by the end of 2011. It seems like a slow roll-out, but compare it to the launch cycle of the Chevrolet Volt. General Motors said that the first Volts are coming in December (although word on the street is that you can get some early) with the rest coming 18 months later. That would have most of America getting the Chevy Volt around June 2012. Yikes!
Nissan is marketing the car heavily at the tech crowd. They took out web ads on some big tech sites (Gizmodo, Engadget) and they allowed you to place a pre-order for the car via the web, without going into a dealership. Could just be a marketing gimmick.
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Due to the Chevron stranglehold forbidding use of NiMH on plug-in cars, Leaf and VOLT-hoax are using the wrong batteries. In practice, the LEAF will only get 60 to 80 miles range, while the VOLT’s 400 lbs. and 16 kWh will only yield 40 miles because due to fragility fears, GM will only allow use of half the pack.
Ironically, NiMH has a higher effective energy density than Lithium (400 lbs. of NiMH would allow use of 12 kWh, or more than 60 miles range).
Moreover, NONE of these promised cars can duplicate the 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV, the only Electric car ever offered for sale to the general public (for 8 months in 2002) prior to Chevron’s enforcement of their patent licensing rights, and Toyota’s stopping production (and paying $30 million to Chevron et al).
We still get over 100 miles range after 100,000 miles, 5-passengers, battery under the vehicle, can carry 1000 lbs. of tools and completely trouble-free. Engineering on the Toyota RAV4-EV essentially stopped in 1997; think how advance we would be except for Chevron’s killing of NiMH (GM cooperated and helped Chevron).