Well it wasn't as bad as the Donner Party had it but imagine you are an electric car enthusiast and you planned to write a glowing article about your new electric Nissan Leaf and your holiday travels. Suppose further that it was only a short trip, a mere 180 miles, but you had to stop 4 times to charge your battery and the trip took 6 hours. Stephen Smith, who is the executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, lives in Knoxville, Tennessee and planned a short trip to Antioch which is a suburb of Nashville. Although Nissan and the EPA assured Smith and everyone else who would listen that the Leaf would travel 100 miles on a charge, the longest leg of the trip between chargings was 55 miles. Even though the outside temperature was a brisk 35 degrees Smith and family elected to forgo using the heater to better increase their mileage. At one point the gauge said they could go another 70 miles, but after 31 miles, the gauge indicated they only had 20 miles of range remaining. Obviously it wasn't to be trusted. When they finished the trip the gauge indicated they could travel another 6 miles!
A similar report was issued by a writer for Consumer Reports, Rob Eshman in California who calls his vehicle a Nissan Solyndra.
“My life now revolves around a near-constant calculation of how far I can drive before I’ll have to walk,” Eshman wrote. “The Nissan Leaf, I can report, is perfect if you don’t have enough anxiety in your life.”
The beauty of all this heartbreak is it only cost the US taxpayers $1.4 billion to retrofit the Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee but Nissan CEO has said publicly that his firm will produce electric vehicles wherever governments will produce the incentives.
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