Electric Car NISSAN LEAF on sale NOW $25,280 after US tax credit

[MadcapMacabre]

Sounds kinda cool. But naturally they will need to increase the distance a battery charge can go. Also, I heard a full charge takes some ridiculous amount of time. 16 hours or something.

[tokyocityrat]

this type of car will beat Veyron in 10 yrs from now.

[KingRadbadical1988]

@devanu1 I would buy that. I need to know what the "average cost" of running it on electricity is though but I don't like power windows anyway, I think that's crap that you can't roll them down when the car is off.

[heartlessvietboy]

100 miles on Pure Electricity is all you need to get you around for the day. Charging Stations will be around for road trips.

[chriskar5]

Our government should step in and regulate speculators. Let them work for the money, not steal from the rest of us.They cause all problems with prices.....

[nanofrass]

I love Lancia delta s4, firespitting monstercar :D

[angelite143]

wow.. Better than Toyota Prius

[dilegentelectron]

BYD e6 goes about 250 miles on a charge. 

[chriskar5]

@dilegentelectron You are not trying to compare a BYD quality to Nissan,are you? On every car show I am shocked how poorly BYD is build....horrible.

[dilegentelectron]

@chriskar5 You haven't even tried driving it. BYD buy engines from mitsubishi. BYD is the world's largest battery manufacturer. The core innovation in e6 is its battery. If something wrong with the car, blame japan.

[7246jack]

EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE AN ELECTRIC CAR. COME ON PEOPLE HELP THE ENVIRONMENT. HELP YOURSELF!!!

[saginata]

@7246jack If you care so much, buy one for me. I don't care enough to buy an ugly, boring car for the price of two good cars.

[Butchmedic]

Fast

Quiet

Roomy

Stylish

Bought it !

Love it !

[purplesnozzberries]

What if you don't have a garage or anything? Long extension cord?

[sierracuban]

We drove a Nissan Leaf in January 2011 as a demo in Sunrise, Florida, and I can tell you that the car is AWESOME......It has nothing to envy of the old dinosaur gasoline engines......I recommend the car to anyone who works within 40 or 50 miles of home, and that's a whole LOT of folks......NO reason to take a gasoline car to work as long as you have this car as a second car.......JUST DO IT ! ! !

Sierra Cuban, Miami, Florida

[VRJensen1]

I want Two One!!! Where can I go Test Drive?

[VRJensen1]

The Volt only goes 40 miles on a charge and the rest is Gas Guzzling...This little Nissan Gem will probably take you to work and home again for a mere One Cent ($0.01)per mile!!!. You've got a "full tank" every morning and will NEVER have to go to another Foreign Oil Shop (aka the gas station) again!!!

[Timsprojects]

did i i see someone say 30.000?? yayyyy really affordable haaaaa

[Andalpha]

An electric car should cost less !!! 15000 USd should be fare

[chriskar5]

@Andalpha THE ONLY REASON FOR EXPENSIVE BATTERIES ARE LITHIUM SPECULATORS! Thank wall street for that!

[pvelectric]

It's a joy for me to see the EVs finally arrive. I think the time and place has gone too far for the backward misers to stop eloectricity, a superior form of energy delivery.

And getting it all will be, mark my words, from the biggest nuclear reactor in our solar system, the sun.

[eduardosilva2007]

it's too bad that the government only alow 20.000 of this a year!, you knowoil MAFIA!

they are scared to lose their profits,, by the way , this 20.000 reverved is allready sold out!

[adbitex]

there should be no tax whatsoever on electric cars. thumbs up if you agree

[xxxxdarksidexxxx]

100 mile range? your kidding lol......chevy volt here I COME!!!!!

[Tamayo1980]

Wondering if GM regretted crushing the EV-1.

[BarryGoldwater99]

what about black out proned cities then uh oh partially charged car

[ROMEO1O1]

Someone should pimp this ride, put some rims, body kit, hood,spoiler,ect, ect

[imaginemedia07]

Sweet!

iNeed LEAF!

[beancube2010]

Need so information about solar penal. After photons hit the solar penal, did they bounce back to the atmosphere and remained traveling in light speed?

[algea07]

@light4darkness really most people wouldn't drive more than a hundred miles to and from work so is you have the choice between two cars one of which is far more mechanically simple and therefor cheaper to run and will save you $50 buck a week in petrol, are you honestly saying that you'd choose petrol.

[deadmantyping2]

I reserved my Leaf today and paid my $99 reservation fee. Hope to be in a Leaf by December.

[johndamm80]

The leaf website opens today go reserve the only all electric vehicle on the market today

[johndamm80]

The base price of the leaf(sv) is $32,780 with a $7,500 government tax rebate bringing it to $25,280 and that comes standard with navigation, intellegent key and a few other options or you can go with the SL that is only $900 dollars more and that comes with a spoiler with a solar panel that will run your accesories

[Liv2xplore]

@light4darkness What about $3.00 per gallon gas? What about good stewardship of our natural resources? What about not giving our money for fuel to foreign investors? What about making the change now so that 100 years worth of reserves could last 200 years? What about reducing smog? What about doing something different than we have to power our cars for the last 100 years? Isn't it time for a change?

[bunnybooties]

I can't wait to buy one of these puppies!

[MrEnergyCzar]

How are the batteries cooled?  It better be under 30K U.S., otherwise it won't sell...

[citris1]

I like this car. I wonder if you could add more batteries as an option?

[tsport100]

@citris1 That is an option Nissan say they are considering.

[thembones12]

How would the Solar Panels work ,

if it rain 7 days and 7 nights?

Baaaaaaaaaah.........

[tsport100]

@thembones12 If the weather is foul, there's guaranteed to be plenty of WIND around. Small turbines are cheaper than PV panels per kwh.

[algea07]

@tsport100 i think he meant on the car, i was thinking about this i'm not sure how many kw a car might use but if you put say 1 m^2 of solar panels on the roof of the car adding $1000-$2000 in price and a bit to the weight would it improve driving distance.

[tsport100]

@algea07 1m2 only generates approx 150w. Average EV power consumption is 200 wh/mi so a 1m2 PV panel would take 80 mins to generate 1 miles worth of energy.

Average Solar Insolation is approx 4-5 hours per day so you'd get around 3 miles worth of energy per day off the PV... @$0.02 per mile it'll take 90 years just to break even.

The Solar race cars that race across Australia have 1.8Kw arrays but they'd cost a lot more than a $2000.

[torolof]

Reno company Snowpeak Energy has created a next-generation solar panel at half the price of a standard panel, while producing 3 times the electricity.

This story is the first time it's been photographed for the public to see.

Aired 04/14/2009

KTVN Channel 2 News

Reporter: Brandon Rittiman

Photographer: Byron Ellis

[deserteagle1010]

@algea07 the solar panel is just to recharge the regular battery, the one every car has to power the lights, the radio etc...

If that battery remains recharged, electric engine don't need to use energy to recharge the regular battery like usual cars do, recurring to an alternator. And that means you won't spend energy from lithium batteries to ordinary things like lights or GPS.

And even if it is raining it's the level of solar radiation that matters to produce energy. Will be less but not none

[Tamayo1980]

@thembones12 Well if that the case, i don't think many gas cars would wanna be driving around either for the simply fact that None stop rain for 7days and nights would lead to massive flooding. fact is it gets great miles before needing to recharge and remember that approx 75% of American have 2 cars in there driveways in order to keep up with the Jones'. So practically if it were to rain for that long, i would leave my car home and take my 4 Runner out to have some fun.

[adbitex]

@thembones12 especially at nights if it rains it wouldn't charge. lol

[tsport100]

@light4darkness Quote a source saying 100 years, you'll find a vested interest making the claim! Even BP were busted BS their reserves.

You're forgetting major fields like the North Sea are running dry. New reserves must be found as fast as the old wells run out otherwise volume decreases. New reserves off Brazil are in ultradeep water (read: ultra expensive). If those are the only places they're making new discoveries then oil prices HAVE to rise to justify the expense of drilling for it.

[tsport100]

@light4darkness 300 years my arse.

The Arabs claim most of those reserves yet

1) they refuse to allow ANYONE to verify it

2) the numbers NEVER go down despite them continuously pumping out millions of barrels a day for decades.

3) their reserves miraculously increase in response to OPEC rule adjustments.

Peak Oil simply means production volume can no longer continue to increase, that has already happened.

[thembones12]

"gazillions" is the price of this car.

IT's PRICELESS AT THIS TIME.

Could be $20k - $28K

at 100 miles per charge that's awesome.

But require 16 hours charge in you home.

Or 8 hours if you got 220 volts system at home.

Anyway, electricity is NOT free. It cost 2 1/2 cents per mile for this electric car. Compare that to gasoline=15 cents per mile.

NOTE: THE WORLD WILL RUN OUT OF OIL IN 65 YEARS FROM NOW!

[sierracuban]

@thembones12 The world may run out of oil in 65 years, BUT, gasoline will become unaffordable in just a few more years.....PEAK OIL

is here, and there is no way to turn back the clock......People will flock to hybrids, pure electrics as this one, and later to hydrogen fuel cells, which are already running in California......OUR WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE........

[2048Megabytes]

I hope so. The internal combustion engine has outlived its time.  Engine technology should change. 50 percent of the energy from gasoline in an internal combustion engine is lost to heat.

[steve89z]

2007 was the peak year for oil production,oil companies are now shifting to natural gas in usa.

[jllstn]

If you have solar panels, electricity will be for FREE

[Liv2xplore]

@thembones12 Mostly, I agree with you, but I believe the cost per mile for a gas engine is closer to 25 cents by the time you do oil changes, radiator flushes, and other routine maintenance.

[jimprice09]

what the price?

[tsport100]

Nissan will announce pricing in April, but a spokesman says the price will be similar to that of a base-level Toyota Prius hybrid, which starts at $22,800.

[bravecat100]

What a shame Honda is not producing one of these.

[Liv2xplore]

@bravecat100 They already did, about the same time as the GM EV-1. They leased them out, and when the lease ran out, they recovered them and destroyed them. That's what makes this one so special, not a lease, it's a purchase, and they can't take it away!

[dvy45]

battery breakthrough 2010 is here, its made from carbon fiber by imperial london college. no more lithium batteries.

[imacrazydude9999999]

I REALLY hope they're not lying about this one

[goku1940]

This sounds wonderful, anything to get away from all of these stupid ass Dodge RAM's and F150's. With this I'll be able to charge it from rooftop solar panels and wind turbines. This is the future, it is the death of the ICE engine and the birth of advanced technology. Soon, back yard mechanics will be a thing of the past and only computer techs (like me) will be able to fix cars. Not to mention, there is only going to be a rotor or two and NO transmission, engine, or exhaust to worry about!

[bravecat100]

@goku1940, I love what you have to say. I thought I was the only one.

[Liv2xplore]

@goku1940 Another one I mostly agree with. The big trucks will still be necessary tools for people and others will never give them up. I'm a back yard mechanic and I have all the info I need to convert a gas car to electric, and bolts still need to be turned and welding done. But yes, it's about time for us to use a new/100 year old technology to power our cars. Henry Ford's wife drove an electric car.

[kunghenry]

Great commercial I hope it wont be too expensive to buy. I really want one.

[W1LDWESLEY]

I've seen a possible price of 30,000

[truecreation]

@W1LDWESLEY 30.000 what i know roughly how much they will sell for in the uk and the goverment are backing this which means their will more than likely be money off also for the first couple of years after release.

[Rickdeckard2020]

Great commercial

Will the affordable price tag be all inclusive(in cluding the battery) or will there be hidden extras such as monthly battery lease paymments?

Will the battery system eventually be available from 3rd party manufacturers in a similar fashion to tires(ex: given the specifications are ok you can by tires from any tire manufacturer that meets your needs)

[4nDr3z40]

I´m going to buy one =D

[bulldog8459]

@4nDr3z40 no you not,you just saying that

[monstercameron]

how affordable ?

[AnonOrange]

It's about time that a commercial describes the product in fairly good detail, without fanfare rather than some autobabe swooning over the hood.

Thanks Nissan. I'm interested.

[paulb4uk]

Ican see this selling well much better than toyota and there hybrids .

[liveoilfree]

Great commercial. The only thing they left out is that it can be powered by your rooftop solar system, so that you can drive on power you make yourself, and just sail right by gasoline stations.

Now, just a matter of will they really build it, and will they really sell it without trick or artifice.

NO BOOMERANG "gm slime" LEASES!! If leased, make sure there's a purchase option.

[homertalk]

This car will never generate even close the power it needs from roof-top solar panels to run it. Its meant to supplement the climate control system.

[liveoilfree]

@homertalk Actually, it only takes 250 kWh to run our Toyota RAV4-EV more than 1000 miles per month...that only takes a solar system of 1.3 kW. Ours is 4.2 kW, so we make enough electric for our three EVs plus all our domestic electric -- and we donated $220 in electric to the grid, more than we used.

[SideburnerSol]

@homertalk, I know what you meant about the rooftop solar panel on top of the Leaf, but as you can see liveoilfree was talking about their solar panels on the roof of their home. When I talked with a Nissan rep at the Leaf Tour event he said that the Leaf's future rooftop solar panel was not certain. The Aptera supposedly will use a rooftop panel to power it's climate control system so I don't see why Nissan couldn't do the same thing. The Koenigsegg Quant does it even better though.

[Liv2xplore]

@liveoilfree The solar panels arn't an option for everyone, some due to cost, others due to not owning their house. But, there are often options to make sure you buy "clean" energy from your local powerstation. I'm in the Seattle area where virtually all our electricity is hydro-power. Other areas can specifically ask for only wind power. It usually costs more, but demand will drive up supply over time.

[TheMorpheusbrasil]

WOW TERRIFIC!

It seens the New World Order and the global enslavement agenda are doomed!

WOOOHOOOOOOO!

First was Tesla, then Phoenix, now a dozen companies are building pure electric cars!

Thanks for uploading this.

[W1LDWESLEY]

well just dont fall for people who do "miracles". Im Quite proud that nissan produced something cheap enouph.