Hmmm, typical piece written by a motor-head who has no experience with EVs. Oh well. I have started driving my 2011 Leaf since last week and love it. True, it has quirky looking headlights but as daily driver it is perfect (contrary to what the writer suggests) and hundreds of thousands of others voted with their money to agree with me. It was more or less by accident that I got this car (whole other story, involving 1,000 mile trip and dis- and re-assembling battery packs), I was not planning on getting yet another EV, but now it has become my favorite daily driver. Very refined handling, pretty quick off the line when needed, outrunning everything but the powerful sports cars and at the same time it can maintain a leasure speed and be extremely efficient for the size and weight, I typically get 4.4 miles per kWh in mixed city and freeway driving.
Do I want a Tesla? Sure. Do I need a Tesla to be able to perform my daily driving? Heck no - I sometimes do not plug in the Leaf because it still has plenty juice after my commute and errands, to make it another day. But hey, I was used to an EV that had 25 mile range. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of brucedp5 via EV Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 12:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] EVLN: 48kWh Cocoon Leaf EV built for ECOSeries racing [ref http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-48-kWh -Cocoon-Leaf-EV-built-as-a-side-project-gt-for-ECOSeries-racing-td468311 1.html ] http://www.autoevolution.com/news/nissan-builds-48-kwh-leaf-as-a-side-pr oject-will-take-it-racing-109767.html Nissan Builds 48 kWh LEAF as a Side Project, Will Take It Racing 25 Jul 2016 Vlad Mitrache [image http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/nissan-builds-48-kwh-leaf-as -a-side-project-will-take-it-racing-109767-7.jpg Nissan LEAF Cocoon video flash ] When the Nissan LEAF came out, the public's expectations regarding EV's maximum range wasn't too great. That's because the only ones interested in this technology were the die-hard ecologists and the novelty seekers who would have bought one even if they had to push it half the way home. Back then, electric mobility wasn't taken too seriously by anybody, manufacturers included. A few years later, Tesla showed everyone else outside those two categories mentioned earlier that you could use an electric vehicle as a daily driver just fine, you just needed a lot of cash to buy it. But with the Model 3 in the pipeline, all that is about to change, so other manufacturers are reacting as well. The first was GM with its Chevrolet Bolt, but Nissan will want to retain its crown of best EV seller, so expect the new LEAF to out-perform GM's offering on almost every level. And let's just hope it will also look a lot less - how should we put this gently? - hideous. Electric cars don't need to look different at any cost anymore. Rumors say that the new LEAF, which is expected to debut soon, will have twice the battery capacity of the best current option - the 30 kWh top pick, as opposed to the 24 kWh base model. That should place it on par with the Tesla Model 3 and grant the Japanese EV a maximum range of over 200 miles (320 km). In the meantime, though, the engineers at NTCE-S (Nissan Technical Center in Barcelona) have put together a special Nissan LEAF with a battery pack that doubles the capacity of the entry-level model. With 48 kWh, the special Nissan LEAF (nicknamed "Cocoon" after the famous sci-fi movie from the '80s) is capable of traveling 147 miles (236 km) on a single charge. We're sure that would make any current LEAF owner extremely happy. But the Cocoon is not for sale, and probably never will be. The Spanish technicians engineered built the car to compete in the local motorsport event called ECOSeries, a competition that rewards "efficiency and fuel economy rather than outright speed." OK, we were afraid there for a moment. Well, as long as the vehicles' design doesn't have a say in deciding the winner, then we guess the LEAF has every chance of succeeding. [(c) autoevolution.com] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-48kWh- Cocoon-Leaf-EV-built-for-ECOSeries-racing-tp4683116.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
