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• knaexer

  Only a person with a very, very, very short vision would say this car is gonna be a total failure… This is the future for god sake!!!

• rocky

  Strongly disagree. Most families have become 2 car families with 2 working adults. There is no reason why one car is not an electric car. Most trips to and from work along with errands will be under 100 miles. The second car in the family can be a conventional or hybrid for long trips until battery technology evolves further. Personaly, I'm looking forward to the push to electric and I think it is long overdue, delayed by the auto industries reluctance to move into a significantly lower maintenance vehicle with substantially fewer working parts. The batteries will undoubtedly become lower cost, higher reliability in production and their are already technologies like quick charge/discharge capacitors that could take the load off batteries and extend range.

• nquinnusa

  I Have a brand new Subaru outback and intend on buying a Leaf as a second (city) car for Florida trips. I beinve it will be very successful and assist this country in getting Nuclear power finally, over the objections of the enviro-terrorists that have stopped nuclear progress. The lowly French have more Nuclear energy than we do.

  100 Mile range satisfies 87% of the population's needs, we are no longer an agrarian economy. I think an F-150 will cost twice what it does, relatively, in 20 years because the market will be so small.

• davidg11

  Look. Rocky hit it on the nose. Nissan isn't marketing this for everyone. The question is simply this. If you are a family with 2 adults and have 2-3 kids and you currently have two vehicles, most people I know use a larger one for road trips, vacations and a work/home commuter for one of the adults. And the other is a home to work and around town errands for the other adult. If my wife drives to work, picks up kids, drives kids to sports, goes to the store and back home. She does not need even a 100 mile range. What does she need? 5 seats and a roomy trunk. So this trumps say an electric THINK car with only two seats and claustrophobia.

  And to sell her on this I simply say the vehicle after $7500 tax credits is $25,000 base price (now I'm assuming the base price is $32,500 for the car), she never has to pump smelly gasoline again. No gas on her hands. No more exhaust smoke. Because she can pre-heat or pre-cool the interior of the vehicle via her cell phone or computer via the internet, her car is perfectly comfortable when she gets into it at home, from the mall, from work, from the beach. And finally, almost zero maintenance on the vehicle. No oil changes, no garage or mechanic visits to look at belts, transmission, coolant, etc..Finally I tell her how much money she saves in “refueling” cost over the lifetime of the vehicle.
  Then I think it is going to be a HUGE hit. So the question is, are there 200,000 families (to take advantage of this $7500 tax credit until it is used up) in the USA in this same family situation? In my opinion? Undeniably yes.

• Victory

  electric cars have no tailpipe but are essentially creating a longer tailpipe and just sending the emissions out of the coal plants and burning more oil to create electricity.

• Dave

  Folks, Just remember the gas shortages of the past. It will be much easier to expand our electrical capacity then get the oil suppliers to ramp up production. Also there will be no one competing for our electricity like there will for the worlds supply of oil.

• Mini Me

  Drugs. Market will be small for the F-150? Hahahahaha

• Kellyc

  Rocky and Davidg11, you guys are correct. We are already on the waiting list at Performance Nissan of Everett. We have an Altima Hybrid which will be our long distance car, and the LEAF will be our around-town-errands car. I also own a F-150 and use it sparingly for hauling stuff (it's a 2002 with 16,000 miles on it). We can't wait to have a car that requires no gas, no transmission fluid, no rear differential fluid, no oil, and no radiator anti-freeze. The LEAF will rock!

• who killed the electric car?

  do your research, it's still a lot less pollution using electricity than it is if everyone is a driving a car that uses gasoline and you can create electricity from other means such as the wind, sun, or water, not just fossil fuels or coals

• cheeseplease

  the “most daring gamble in the automobile world.”

  Flint says that the Leaf is “more likely to be a sales failure than a sales success.” What’s Flint’s reasoning? He says that the Leaf ”doesn’t have the range of a conventional car, it doesn’t have the top speed, it costs more and it takes forever to refuel.”

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  yawn too bad GM didn't think of this might of saved them
  volt isn't a good electric car; volt isn't a good gas car

  car and batteries built in smyrna, tennessee, United States of America

  range .. 20 min quick chargers in targets markets
  top speed .. 89MPH
  costs about 7500 more than a conventional car which is offset by the 7500 tax credit
  8hr recharge at home from empty

  looks like someone didn't do their homework

• Bill

  Flint still isn't convinced that the world is round.

• JVC

  Who would not want to be number one to the EV market. However he should have shut up about his negative comments. It is never good for the image to put down a competitor in the way he did, claiming failure. It is not that I disagree with him, but its a matter of tactfullness.

  As to his point, the issue is not who comes out with the first production EV. Climate change is a very serious problem that many people are just brushing aside. There is no one single solution to the problem but we need to start presenting options that partially help. This is one of them. The risk with this Nissan is that if this is the first impression of what we can expect from an EV than it better be performing at decent levels. What those levels are is not for Mr. Flint to determine, it is for the consumer to do so. If he did his job properly he would be listening to his customers rather than bashing the competition.

  IMO, regardless of performance, this car may be the beginning of what could be with EVs. Even if it flops we'll have a real world base that will help us improve upon something rather than talking and talking.

  People need to be educated about climate change. We've lost about half of our forest cover in the last century, the US is already consuming more water than what nature is able to replenish, we depend on imports for food because we are beyond our capacity within our own borders, we've doubled the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, we produce about half of the world's carbon emissions … and Mr Flint is concerned with who comes first to market.

• JVC

  Multiple studies show that the impact on the electric grid in the US will be minimal, even though its mostly coal-burning. There are now new ways to solve this issue without pluging into the grid. Solar Power can be leased without down payment which will allow you to charge your car. You will pay a monthly fee but still manage to save on electric bills PLUS you will not produce emissions.

• JVC

  I agree with your assessment. I have a family of four, incl a 7 and 2 yr olds. We're almost to the point when the 2 yr old will no longer need a stroller, pack'n'plays, etc to carry so we're planning to scale down the family vehicle (currently an XC90) to a more modest Q5 hybrid, diesel or even a VW Tiguan. The purpose of the family vehicle is for my wife to get to work, pick up the baby at daycare, do shopping, and weekend getaways. I drive an Audi A4 with decent mileage, which I may also trade in for a smaller more fuel efficient car (not to the extent of a Prius because I want to still enjoy driving).

• GMfan87

  this is why we need more NUCLEAR!

• GMfan87

  um the volt isn't and electric car or gas car…its a PHEV or Plug-in HYBRID Electric Vehicle. it's built for practicality so you don't need more than one car. it can do it all.