Cruising in the Nissan Leaf Vid
If they sold the home charging station as part of the car package it would probably sell better.
Currently it would be like having to buy your own home petrol pump. I do like the fact this car doesn't look that much of a difference from cars on sale now. Id probably buy one for the right price. |
03:46pm 04/08/10 Permalink
based on tiida = biggest heap of s*** ever
leaf this one alone |
04:24pm 04/08/10 Permalink
Why the hell does it need a charging station, why doesn't it just come with a power cable? It's early days yet and there are no charging stations :/
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04:57pm 04/08/10 Permalink
Why don't they just make it so the wheels kinetic motion charges a secondary battery which then charges up the main battery. Boom unlimited power right there.
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05:00pm 04/08/10 Permalink
thats a totally silly and ridiculous idea fpot, unless of course you only ever drove downhill and then it would work fine.
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05:03pm 04/08/10 Permalink
What... are you saying that perpetual motion is impossible? Says who?!?!?!
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05:07pm 04/08/10 Permalink
why the f*** did that tool keep saying KNEES-ON ? its NIS-AN you stupid f***.
also, how much does this retail for au? |
05:12pm 04/08/10 Permalink
Said it before and ill say it again, WTF do they make electric cars look so gay and give them such gay names.
Give me an electric car that looks and handles like a focus and i'd get one. |
05:37pm 04/08/10 Permalink
This is the first electric (or hybrid) car that I would consider buying - because it actually does look decent.
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06:02pm 04/08/10 Permalink
Said it before and ill say it again, WTF do they make electric cars look so gay and give them such gay names. ditto, I was actually considering the focus econetic until I read it uses special low friction oil & special low friction tyres, which I'm betting you can only buy from ford for a f*****g fortune and I refuse to pay $1000 for what is basically some knob putting new oil in. |
06:09pm 04/08/10 Permalink
I dunno, the japanese kinda say niisahn where the yanks say kneeee saarn
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06:18pm 04/08/10 Permalink
whats up slaps, you got some sort of super woody for electric cars?
i was reading aout the tesla sports electric car thats being released in aus. good range, 0-100 in less than 4 seconds. the aussie dude that owns one of the only 2, reckons he couldnt go back to a petrol car after the performance of the tesla |
06:35pm 04/08/10 Permalink
how do you charge the tesla? normal house plug or special power supply?
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09:20pm 04/08/10 Permalink
Simon Hackett has one, Internode CEO. For the price they are, which is 200k+, I'll continue to burn fossil fuels with a real engine and noise, sorry environment.
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09:26pm 04/08/10 Permalink
09:26pm 04/08/10 Permalink
me too - id love to have one and have been investigating a home-electric-car-kit... nothing i saw grabbed me just yet but im still looking hehe Have a look on YouTube at the 96V systems people have been putting in VW Beetles. Very neat. I dunno, the japanese kinda say niisahn where the yanks say kneeee saarn Concur, and I studied Japanese for six years. Can't stand the way the yanks say it. Why the hell does it need a charging station, why doesn't it just come with a power cable? It's early days yet and there are no charging stations :/ I'll have a stab and say that the electronics required to charge quickly is significant - i.e., some major item which would be prohibitively expensive for everyone to buy. You can always trickle-charge from any source, but I think they want to be able to 'fill up' quickly, so there is challenging electronics at play there. thats a totally silly and ridiculous idea fpot, unless of course you only ever drove downhill and then it would work fine. It's also the principle of regenerative braking. If you want to stop, might as well convert your kinetic energy back into chemical and store it in the battery rather than just dissipate it as heat on your disk brakes, amirite? |
11:36pm 04/08/10 Permalink
I like the look of the leaf, has it got all the nerd bells and whistles insofar as gadget integration goes?
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12:59pm 05/08/10 Permalink
Course us Aussies say "Niss'n" so *shrug*i pronounce it 'heap of s***' about the only nissans to impress me are the late model cedrics and ti maximas |
01:16pm 05/08/10 Permalink
lols hardware showing his car knowledge up again
go back to your lpg falcon and s*** heap corollas matey |
02:54pm 05/08/10 Permalink
Course us Aussies say "Niss'n" so *shrug*i pronounce it 'heap of s***' You do realise that Maximas are Renaults, don't you. Xtrail = Koleos.... |
03:17pm 05/08/10 Permalink
