Monday, July 30, 2012

LEAF v iON

GREEN CRAP

"I Stand By It as a Theatrical Work"
climate change battle cry

tomw made mention of the Nissan Leaf in comments on the "Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012" post.  Last year Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson and James May drove a battery powered Leaf,  Peugeot iOn on a trip .. not a very long one as it turned out, across the English countryside.  It was both entertaining and instructive; the Green legions went up the wall, natch,   because, well  they only go about 100 miles and take 13 hours to charge- if you can find a charging station.  A bloke writing for Green Car Reports complained (with a brave face).

"They needed to recharge their fully-drained 2011 Nissan Leaf  in the rural English county of Lincolnshire.

Needless to say, they had purposely exhausted the car's battery, and chosen a place known for its lack of electric-car charging stations. 

As with past Top Gear segments involving electric cars, many plug-in fans weren’t impressed. Neither was Nissan. "

Really?  I don't know what "purposely exhausted the car's battery" means?  They drove them;  the batteries drained.  Give it a watch, and decide.


11 comments:

Steve in Greensboro said...

"...they had chosen a place known for its lack of charging stations..."

Planet Earth, you mean?

Wabano said...

Working at a seaplane base where
cars unload into planes and vice versa,
with people and vehicles
going about all over, I found the
electric cars extremely hazardous
as making no noise, folks keep
stepping in front of them as they
move, assuming no noise mean immobile...
like regular people looking
the wrong way crossing the street
in limey lands, England, Japan, India...

Then, on the other hand, up north
in the winter, everywhere you park
a car, you have a plug in station,
as if you dont plug your engine in, even the
wheels wont turn anymore...

However, keeping an electric car
charged in the north would cost
more than feeding a jet engine...

Anonymous said...

It's not fair! Just because electric cars have a limited range, lousy performance, extended charge times and use so much electricity that no power-grid on earth could supply a substantial number of them with energy...RIGHT AWAY YOU TRASH THEM AS BEING JUNK.

I'm pretty sure this is because Obama is black. RACISTS!

Anonymous said...

Aww! The video ended just as I was getting distracted by the background.
GrinfilledCelt

Anonymous said...

Well, at least we're closing down some of those nasty, polluting power plants. That should help.
Pvt-Cdr(SS) MichigammeDave

Jess said...

Thirteen hours for a fill-up? I get pissed when they don't change the filters and it takes 5 minutes to fill my truck.

Dumbasses. In a perfect world, they'd be in institutions.

Anonymous said...

No Jess, in a perfect world, they'd be swinging from overpasses.

Casca

Jess said...

You're right. It's much cheaper and eliminates a further risk of gene contamination.

Anonymous said...

"swinging from overpasses"
Casca, lets go for lampposts instead. Don't want to damage the passing eighteen wheelers.
I have about 250' of 3/4" rope. That will get us started on my flog, hang, and flog-before-hang lists.
Holder & Co. are beneath contempt and ought to be beneath lampposts, oak limbs and, in a pinch, overpasses.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

David said...

Impale them on stakes and line the roads into DC with their bodies as a reminder to the incoming lot that treason will not be tolerated.

Anonymous said...

When I'm out in the sticks, I can think of only one practical use for a leaf... and it ain't for roofing my shelter.

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