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Originally Posted by SentraSE-R
I'm with Frank. There's too much unrelated verbiage unrelated to the Leaf. Potential EV purchasers are not interested in obscure Chevrolets or Porsche Boxsters. To them, the epitome of gasoline engine development isn't a 300 hp FSP, it's something like a Civic HF or a Lotus Elise.
Carburetors is misspelled. Horrific is overdone. No where is one word, and misused. Crises are the plural of crisis.
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Not writing to an EV crowd.
Not Jalopnik either.
Eh, I wasn't sure I was going to use this, more of a 3am jot-down (with the typos to show, lol). But it's for an enthusiast site, which is why I'm starting with the Boxster and CST/10 reference. Again, the main goal isn't to really sell it to EV enthusiasts. Every single Leaf review you find can play to that crowd. I'm more looking at it from an outside point of view, and after today looking at what it means to the average consumer car.
Think 5 years down the road, that we have entry level compact cars with better NVH qualities than the best luxury car on the planet. There's no real maintenance costs either. With commitment from cities to provide power stations, the flexibility of an electric car in day-to-day activities or maybe even fleet use (delivery services, etc) becomes a reality for those outside of the EV crowd even.
It's an interesting thing, no doubt.
My car:
Also driving one of these was bloody weird. I kept expecting shifts. And I could hear the near-silent whine of the A/C blower over the whine of the drive motors most of the time.