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 
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Mitsubishi Once Again #FAILs With the i-MiEV
October 13th, 2011 Aaron Turpen When the Mitsubishi i was first introduced back in 2003 as a concept car, it was a gasoline-powered “smart car.” Since then, it’s gone through some revisions and made a huge splash a couple of years ago as an all-electric renamed the i-MiEV. The company then totally failed to capitalize on that marketing and instead [...]
Posted in Electrics, Featured Tags: electric car, Electric vehicle, MIEV, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi i MiEV, nissan leaf 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 »Nissan Leaf to Sound Like Cheap Sci-Fi Effect
June 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Well, here you have it. The Chevy Volt promises to have some dumb Star Trek noise associated with it and now Nissan has officially let us know that the soon-to-be-release Leaf will also be going corny Sci-Fi with its noisemaker. This video is of the Leaf driving by and the associated “approach” sound it makes. [...]
Posted in Electrics Tags: Buck Rogers, chevrolet volt, Jetsons, Nissan, nissan leaf, Nissan Motors, sci-fi, Science fiction, Star Trek 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 [...]
BYD Plans to Shelve E6 Electric Car Before It’s Even Made
March 16th, 2010 Aaron Turpen Who killed the Chinese electric car? BYD, apparently. The battery maker-turned-automaker announced that they’ll not be making the E6 as quickly as planned and that the 100 planned models for use as taxis in the area around the company’s HQ may be the only battery-electrics made. This comes, of course, well after their financial projections [...]
