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Nissan Leaf !! (Electric Car)
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The more the I read about these the more convinced I am to get one!! Am I missing something obvious that puts people off buying them......don't see many driving about!! ??? !!!
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Well, if you fall within the mileage category per week, there's no reason at all why it should not suit you. Ratter15's point is not an issue as a Leaf with the 30kwh battery takes only around 15 hours to charge from zero. The 24kwh hour battery takes 12 hours to charge from zero. Extrapolatin g has shown that even if there was a 100% takeup of this vehicle in the UK,...
17:50 Sun 17th Jan 2016
Baldric, let's take a look at a website concerning the Nissan Leaf that belongs to the car manufacturer. I do tend to find the information contained on the car manufacturer's website to be more reliable than a review in circumstances like this - they should know about these things after all. Here it is:
http:// www.nis san.co. uk/GB/e n/vehic le/elec tric-ve hicles/ leaf/pr ices-an d-equip ment/ho w-to-bu y-my-le af.html
Under the Nissan Leaf Flex heading, take a look at the sub-heading "Battery Pricing Grid". Notice the words "hire" in reference to the battery and then notice the cost per month figures dependent on mileage. For comparison, you should then look at the inclusive costs under the "All in one Solution" where the battery does indeed belong to the car purchaser.
Good luck with arriving at a decision over the best "option" to take.
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Under the Nissan Leaf Flex heading, take a look at the sub-heading "Battery Pricing Grid". Notice the words "hire" in reference to the battery and then notice the cost per month figures dependent on mileage. For comparison, you should then look at the inclusive costs under the "All in one Solution" where the battery does indeed belong to the car purchaser.
Good luck with arriving at a decision over the best "option" to take.
///Good luck with arriving at a decision over the best "option" to take.///
Well thanks for that, but I wouldn't touch one with a barge pole, nor would I touch a manufacturers site for accurate info on a new car 'cause all that want to do is to sell me something, I'll have a look at the pretty pictures, check the price list then head for the review sites to find out what it's really like.
(I noticed on your link it can cost up to £93 a month to lease the battery)
While I appreciate that car manufacturers websites are biased, the point I was trying to make was that the car battery info on the Nissan website had to be reasonably reliable or they would suffer the consequences. Nissan have no choice but to be open with this info.
Just like you Baldric, i wouldn't touch one with a bargepole either. The £93 a month lease cost of the battery is ridiculous in itself, but having to pay at least £3920 for a replacement for a duff battery as hc4361 points out makes me conclude that anyone who buys one of these cars has more money than sense.
Just like you Baldric, i wouldn't touch one with a bargepole either. The £93 a month lease cost of the battery is ridiculous in itself, but having to pay at least £3920 for a replacement for a duff battery as hc4361 points out makes me conclude that anyone who buys one of these cars has more money than sense.
@TTT
From WIKI
/There are two main technologies available on the market, alkaline and proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers. Alkaline electrolysers are cheaper in terms of investment (they generally use nickel catalysts), but less efficient; PEM electrolysers, conversely, are more expensive (they generally use expensive platinum-group metal catalysts) but are more efficient and can operate at higher current densities, and can be therefore be possibly cheaper if the hydrogen production is large enough. Reported working efficiencies are in the range 60-75% for alkaline and 65–90% for PEM./
From WIKI
/There are two main technologies available on the market, alkaline and proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers. Alkaline electrolysers are cheaper in terms of investment (they generally use nickel catalysts), but less efficient; PEM electrolysers, conversely, are more expensive (they generally use expensive platinum-group metal catalysts) but are more efficient and can operate at higher current densities, and can be therefore be possibly cheaper if the hydrogen production is large enough. Reported working efficiencies are in the range 60-75% for alkaline and 65–90% for PEM./
In case you didn't see the comparison between a pure electric and a hydrogen powered car on a trip to France(shown on sky, I think), The hydrogen car had to go quite a bit out of its way to fill up initially but with a 300 mile range did the trip without a stop (apart from having to take the cross channel ferry because hydrogen cars are not allowed in the tunnel). The electric car had to recharge every 50 miles and gave up when a recharging station failed and there wasn't another within the remaining range.
Not sure but who wants to have to break their journey every couple of hours to recharge a battery ? If you were going any reasonable distance, it would take all day to get there.
Electric vehicles were OK for milk floats but they just don't make any sense for an everyday car.
ilovemarkb....think long and hard before buying one of these ruddy things.
If you really feel guilty about wasting the earth's resources, then investigate a hybrid car instead.
Electric vehicles were OK for milk floats but they just don't make any sense for an everyday car.
ilovemarkb....think long and hard before buying one of these ruddy things.
If you really feel guilty about wasting the earth's resources, then investigate a hybrid car instead.