Nissan faces Class Action over it's "Leaf" vehicle

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Originally Posted by Clarke

And personally, I think it's more accurate to call this "dodgy advertising." It's still an electric car - just one slightly less powerful than was being advertised.

I agree this seems more like bad advertising combined with a poorly designed car, the article even says that the battery design is unlike other eletric cars.

Originally Posted by Niri Te

If they are being targeted at people in cities, then the whole concept is stupid, and not really needed. I used to live in Munich for two years, and I never used my car to go anywhere where I didn't need it's trunk for something, and that trunk on a 1965 Mustang 2+2, was a LOT larger than the ones in electric vehicles. Anywhere that I need to go, I could get there with the "S" Bahn, "U" Bahn, or Trams, so an electric car would be a waste. What I DID use the Mustang for, was playing "HEEERRE Porsche, Porsche, Porsche" in the left lane of the Autobahns from Munich, to where my Brother was stationed in Giessen, which AGAIN, is too far of a trip for an electric car, and I doubt REAL seriously, that one could have kept up with my built up Mustang that would run all night at 140 MPH.
If they are meant to reduce pollution in the cities, why not adopt public transportation systems like they have in any large city in Germany, CLOSE OFF the city to privately owned cars, and leave the cars for inter city travel??

Yes, the reason american cities public transport systems are so bad is partly due to the car culture, partly due to a lack of federal transport strategy/finance and lumbering state and local planning committees that drag on your years. Even if they do develop a public transport system it will often be over-budget and won't get people out of their cars.

Los Angeles set up the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a metro system to transport people around the city and reduce congestion, not only did it get less people that it expected, it did not service some areas of the city that had grown up in the time it was built and it didn't cut down traffic since people had to drive to the stations.