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

Electric Car 2010 NISSAN LEAF $25,280 after U.S. tax credit.

Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The rest of the energy is lost to engine and driveline inefficiencies and idling. Therefore, the potential to improve fuel efficiency with advanced technologies is enormous. With an Electric Car it costs just $1.00 per 100kms with MUCH more performance than with petrol at $20.00 per 100kms.

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[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.

[4nDr3z40]

I´m going to buy one =D

[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.

[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.....

[chriskar5]

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

[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.

[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.

[bulldog8459]

@4nDr3z40 no you not,you just saying that

[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.