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Willie , that was an excellent driver review of your EVs, something that is woefully missing in the media newswires. You gave exactly the information that people can use. Thanks for posting that, and congratulations on your new EV. ... When I go south deeper into the heart of Silicon Valley, like Cor, I see more Tesla EVs. But up here on the northern edge of Silicon Valley, I do see a few in the more affluent neighborhoods. Here is an image of what Cor was mentioning, some Getaround Tesla EVs http://www.recargo.com/system/site_photos/6732/big/userUpload.jpg Mostly in this northern working man's region (less affluent, fairly south of San Francisco), it is Leaf EVs that can be seen commuting to and from their Hi-Tech or Bio-Medical firms. Face book hq has a mix of employee charging (private) http://www.recargo.com/sites/7082 See http://www.recargo.com/system/site_photos/5283/big/evse-ca-menlo-park-facebook-building16-blink-20120202-001-l.jpg Shown are a mess of Leaf EVs, but Face book has a lot of EVSE (both Blink and Chargepoint). So. around on the other side of their site you may see Active-E, Focus Electric, Tesla EVs, and Volt pih as well. As I posted previously, some companies have sweet employee deals that let them drive a Leaf EV for a low amount and charge at work for free (they use it as a perk to keep the highly skilled employees working for them, and not wanting to leave). Google is a plugin booster (to help offset the pollution from their server farms. Note: their charging is private) http://carstations.com/965 See http://electric.carstations.com/wp-content/uploads/965/google-solar-trees.jpg http://electric.carstations.com/wp-content/uploads/965/google-ev-charger-mountain-view.jpg Their solar canopy charging on a large scale is similar to what OR and WA have. Evernote has most of the bottom floor of their employee parking structure filled with plugins (mostly Leaf EVs, but also a couple Fit EVs, and Volt pih) http://www.recargo.com/sites/7978 Since I spend time checking out EVSE sites, I see a lot more plugins 'plugged in' than I see on the road (I usually retreat home before commute hours hit hard). {brucedp.150m.com} - On Tue, Jun 4, 2013, at 06:47 PM, Willie McKemie wrote: > Straight from the horse's mouth. Or something like that. > > I started driving my Hyundai conversion about 4.5 years ago. Though > I've driven it about 40k miles, it has never given me the needed > reliability. About two years ago, we bought a Leaf and put about 25k > miles on it. No trouble at all from it. Except for premature battery > decline. And the REALLY crappy instrumentation. It was good for my > wife's work commute of about 60 miles and it used to do 90-100 miles > for my trips. However, it's range declined to 60-75 miles and it was > of little use to me. I took delivery of a Model S about two months > ago and it has been a super car. > > I wanted the Tesla for it's range and did not care about all the > gewgaws or the performance. Indeed, minor irritations have been that > the tire pressure warning false alarms to the point of being useless > and that the charge port sometimes fails to open on command. Tesla > still doesn't have an Android app that works; that is the one place > where the Leaf was better. The Leaf was accessible either through an > Android/iPhone app or a web page. However, the Tesla's instrumentation > is almost as good as you could hope. If it says x miles left, you have > x +/- 10%. Tesla regen is FAR superior to Leaf regen. On the Leaf, it > is difficult to not use the brake pedal and it is not possible to tell > when friction braking begins. And Leaf regen is far weaker than > Tesla's. It is easy to drive the Tesla without using the brake pedal. > > About 5k miles on the Tesla and I'm happier with it than with any car > I've had previously. And, the Tesla is about the 3rd fastest vehicle > I've had. I think my 1964 Pontiac was faster up to about 110 mph and > my Kawasaki H2 was faster up to about 100 mph. Both of those vehicles, > you had to work to go fast: treat the clutch right and do a lot of > fast shifting. On the Tesla, acceleration is completely without > effort; just press the throttle. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
