If you live in California or get your electric power from PG&E, when you buy an EV, you qualify for the E-9 TOU tariff. The E-9 tariff allows you to charge your EV during off-peak hours ( nights) for 5 cents per KWHr and you get that price for all electricity at night. The TOU peak rates are 1/2 even the solar friendly E-6 rates topping out at 26 cents per KWHr in the top tier. So if you charge your Leaf at 5 cents per KWHr it takes .05 x 24 or $1.20 – YES that’s a buck twenty to charge your leaf for 100 miles. If your gasoline car got 23 MPG ( the US average last year) and gas was $3.00 per gallon ( current CA average) , then that same 100 miles would use 4.35 gallons or 4 x $3.00 = $13.00. THAT is almost 11 TIMES cheaper.

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That's why it's really up to the G to implement eco-friendlyness into our everyday society and encouraging (if not forcing) everything & every place to be EV friendly. There has been news i read recently of some places having chargable tar roads along street, where it constantly charges your car as long as you're on that road. So hopefully in years to come, if all roads have this… we'll never have to charge our EV cars!

Btw, it car is great and all and we can just (freshly) smell the future nearby, but are there any down sides to the car?

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August 4, 2009 @ 8:15 am

wife wakes husband up at 2am…..

wife: hubby, my water broke

hubby: ALAMAK! i lupa charge kereta!

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HUH? wouldn't it be the same as a person forgetting to put gas into his car? or forgetting where he put his car keys?

Forgetting to charge isn't the car's respondsiblity… it's just your own blunder.

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Nissan can do great designs like the older Murano, new GTR, Fairlady, and the Latio (Rear part only, front still hard to swallow), now, how could they approve the design of this car?? Let me look at it again… ya, Still very fugly.

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At the very beginning of this first production car, it is already very promising and quite practical to use.

With 160 KM range, I can work in Klang from Balakong, plus a little grocery run before my low batt signal is on.

1. This is a city car. And Nissan never said this car can meet 100% of your needs. Look at the potential of it. Imagine if you double up the battery pack by using up half of the boot, you would get over 300km range, or KL – JB trip.

2. Most of the families nowadays have more then 1 car.

3. There is a 30 minutes quick charge option, you may argue that there is none charging stating available, but then, I would believe that a quick charge station would be much more cheaper then NGV station, as laying electric cables required much less work and less risk compare to high pressure natural gas pipelines.

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1. Nowadays, it take around 2 hours to travel from KL to Ipoh. With this car, it will take 2 DAYS!! Why – after 160km, I have spent one nite in a motel, let the battery charge for 8 hours before continue my journey.

2. You may say "This is a city car"… therefore, I need to have one car for driving in the city and another one for travelling long distance.

3. Today, when we are low in petrol, we can easily re-fill at a nearby petrol station. Mmmm.. what happen when we are low in "Battery". How long do we have to stop before we can continue with our journey?

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wife: hubby, my water broke

hubby: ALAMAK! i lupa charge kereta!

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Did you mentioned that the battery pack has a 24kWh capacity?

Recharging it could potentially cost more then RM5.23 – RM10.70 plus charging inefficiency. But then, with the highest domestic TNB rate, it still runs at less then RM0.07 per KM.

Is the "price comparable to a well equipped petrol car" include battery? If it is, thats a pretty good deal!

If say the battery replacement is some RM20,000 and we will need to travel some 100k KM to justify the cost. That would mean some 3-4 years of driving. By then, you might need to replace your battery again, if that is true, it is more or less like driving a normal petrol car, minus the smoke from your tail pipe.

And if

– the battery can last more then 4 years.

– the maintenance on the electric engine is cheaper then normal petrol engine

it will be a big plus

Very funny big plug and small plug, hahaha.

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What do you think if this car have solar panel roof top? The car can be charged itself while on the move!

Great aesthetic design…

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long distance like balik kampung, i can buy one 2nd hand naza ria for that.

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Any indication how much will the battery costs?

If its expensive, then it still remains like a chicken-egg scenario. The Civic hybrid doesnt sells well because of this issue despite the price reduction, IMHO.

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Don't, please, don't tax the car too much (e.g Prius = 170k). I dont care whether it was tax or duty or hell but that is too expensive.

Yes we want to protect Proton, Perodua, Naza or crap but by imposing high tax to this technologically advanced car, we are moving backward.

The best is to have Nissan locally assemble this car here for southeast asia market. This is the next generation of car as a whole after 100 years manipulating internal combustion. This kind of technology is very important and by getting it assemble here, the transfer of technology will be massive.

The whole industry will evolve. We have to face and prepare fot it; in the positive manner. Not by taking shortcut and getting more money through high tax. We will have employees learn the knowledge, gain experiences and later become experts; improving human resource. The chain of supply for EV car parts will significantly improve, giving a wide opportunity for Proton for sourcing. Proton can, and of course will do reverse-engineering on this car and learn a thing or two.

160km range for this first article i consider excellent. Will gradually increased very soon.

Ultimately, the goal is environment. More '0' emission car will be used in Malaysia. The greener the better. Good environment surely will produce good countrymen.

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Hahahaha

Maybe that’s why Warren Buffet keen to invest.. LOL

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really you change the world. actually i like its V shape.

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