Thread: The Nissan Leaf, and What Electric Drivetrain Means to Us
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Old 03-13-2011, 01:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hubert Farnsworth View Post
http://ca.jalopnik.com/5780215/nissan-electric-car-stranding-owners
Looks like some people don't know how to handle an electric car? That or there is a faulty battery SOC indicator, if it says 17 miles available but is flat dead in 5 miles.
I didn't drive it long enough to notice the range indicator. But naturally there is going to be some teething pains as People move into them. I should have said that they only really work well as a city car, not so much suburbs. But I'd be curious to see about why the indicator is so jumpy. You'd think it would be conservative like a modern gas gauge instead of over estimating
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