Nissan Leaf all-electric taxis start pilot program in NYC

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Nissan, New York City Launch LEAF Electric Vehicle Taxi Pilo

New York – To celebrate Earth Day, Nissan and New York City Mayo
Michael Bloomberg today launched a new electric vehicle taxi pilo
with the world's best-selling electric car, Nissan LEAF. This pilo
program, which puts six LEAF taxis into service beginning this spring
will help Nissan, the city, the taxi industry and the publi
understand how zero emission vehicles can be integrated into futur
taxi fleets

Joe Castelli, vice president, Nissan Commercial Vehicles said
"As part of our commitment to zero emission vehicles for th
mass-market, Nissan is looking for ways to broaden the use of electri
cars, including commercial applications like taxis. Following th
selection of Nissan NV200 as New York City's Taxi of Tomorrow, ou
relationship with the city provides us the ultimate proving ground t
conduct this LEAF taxi pilot to help optimize the use of electri
vehicle technology for future applications.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "Even though the Taxi of Tomorro
won't be on the road for another six months, we're already lookin
ahead to the taxi of the day after tomorrow. Nissan's proven trac
record with electric vehicles will put us ahead of the curve i
helping us answer important questions about incorporating electri
taxis into the fleet so that we can achieve the goal of a one-thir
electric taxi fleet by 2020.

As part of the pilot, Nissan and partners in New York City will als
install several CHAdeMO-based DC quick chargers, which will enabl
drivers to re-charge their electric taxis quickly during their shift
With quick charging, Nissan LEAF can be recharged to about 80 percen
in under 30 minutes

About the 2013 Nissan LEA
Now in its third model year, Nissan LEAF is the world's best-sellin
pure electric vehicle with nearly 60,000 cumulative sales worldwide
For 2013, LEAF features numerous customer-focused upgrades and is no
being assembled at Nissan's plant in Smryna, Tenn. LEAF is powered b
a responsive 80kW AC synchronous motor produced at Nissan's Powertrai
Assembly plant in Decherd, Tenn., with energy supplied by an advance
48-module lithium-ion battery assembled at Nissan's new battery plan
in Smyrna

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Nissan LEAF can be recharged to about 80 percentin under 30 minutes.

A real car can be "recharged" with fuel in about 3 minutes ... one reason
of many why electric cars are incredibly stupid and won't be replacing
normal cars any time soon.

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Nissan LEAF can be recharged to about 80 percentin under 30 minutes.

A real car can be "recharged" with fuel in about 3 minutes ... one reason
of many why electric cars are incredibly stupid and won't be replacing
normal cars any time soon.

Plus, it does not appear that they ever consider how much fuel it takes
to generate the electricity to charge the damn things.

Don

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Nissan LEAF can be recharged to about 80 percentin under 30 minutes.

A real car can be "recharged" with fuel in about 3 minutes ... one reason
of many why electric cars are incredibly stupid and won't be replacing
normal cars any time soon.

Plus, it does not appear that they ever consider how much fuel it takes
to generate the electricity to charge the damn things.

The every increasing reliance on battery-driven products, be it cars or
tablets / mobile phones, wireless keyboard / mice, etc., is ridiculous.
The blinkered fools think it's "green", when in reality it's no better, if
not worse, than the past thanks to the need to generate all that
electricty to power them plus the fact that battery technology is still at
the reather flakey stage where they must be replaced every so often and
the old batteries need to be disposed of (an incredibly messy and
dangerous business).

Part of the actual truth for pushing such product is so that big business
can keep selling you replacement batteries.