Mark Perry, director of product planning and strategy for Nissan North America, says that have 200 or 300 miles’ range in an electric vehicle is “totally unnecessary for the vast majority of American motorists.” This illustrates why he will never be a VP or be in Nissan’s marketing department. Technically Perry is right: most people [...]
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Nissan Says Long Range Unnecessary in EVs
October 27th, 2011 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Electrics, Featured 
Tags: ElectricVehicle, leaf, Mark Perry, Nissan, nissan leaf, Nissan Motors 
Comments OffMitsubishi Can’t Accept the Obvious, Tries Hype Instead
June 26th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Mitsubishi, who completely missed the boat when they could have taken the market by storm with the i-MiEV, is struggling to keep up with the electric car market. The company has now announced that they’re initiating a “price war” against “high cost electric vehicles” and will be cutting down their i-MiEV’s price in order to [...]
Posted in Electrics Tags: electric car, ElectricVehicle, ev, leaf, Mitsubishi, mitsubishi imiev, Nissan, nissan leaf 1 Comment »Mitsubishi Sees Nissan, Gets Nervous, Slashes Price of i-MiEV
April 2nd, 2010 Aaron Turpen A couple of days ago, Nissan announced the North American price tag for its soon-to-be-released electric car, the Leaf. No doubt you’ve seen the commercials for it on TV or on websites like Facebook. The Leaf will hit the streets at about $32,750 before any incentives. It will be just over $25k after the federal [...]
