Our LEAF EV is now one year old. The standard one-year service visit cost us zero dollars; no oil change, no anything. Nissan suggests changing out a passenger cabin air filter after a year, but since we never use the air conditioner this was not done. . .
Electric Vehicles
The lifetime fuel economy is 3.1 l/100k which compares very favourably with my 2010 Prius, which used to consume 4.8l/100k. . .
EV range: about 55kms under the present weather conditions and the earliest Canadian users are reporting about an 8-15km drop … Read more
Technically, the Volt is a plug-in hybrid, not a pure electric. GM prefers to call it an “extended-range electric” because … Read more
In my first EV posting back in May, I guesstimated that when driven carefully a Nissan LEAF should be … Read more
Should your LEAF have a flat tire, then getting somewhere to have the problem fixed may not be as … Read more
We have now had our Nissan LEAF EV for a month and things are going smoothly. Everyone we have taken … Read more
Note: This is the first of a series of guest posts on electric vehicles–EVs. I’ve written about the … Read more
Portion of a presentation made January 10, 2008 to Al Gore’s Solutions Summit To significantly address the United State’s contribution … Read more
Yes, Franz Alt’s powerful little book is in German. And yes there’s perhaps only 100 million native German speakers in … Read more
