Nissan Leaf a comfortable, fun car to drive (For 50 Miles - Then it Dies!)

San Antonio Express News ^ | 02/13/2011 | G. Chambers Williams III

[Reeses]

they're plumes of condensed water vapor.

which is not water vapor at all but tiny spherical liquid water droplets that refract all wavelengths of light including infrared, very different than invisible water vapor. Water vapor has a net warming effect, most clouds a net cooling effect. That's a big difference.

Satellite Confirms Urban Heat Islands Increase Rainfall: mean monthly rainfall rates within 30-60 kilometers (18 to 36 miles) downwind of the cities were, on average, about 28 percent greater than the upwind region. In some cities, the downwind area exhibited increases as high as 51 percent.

[Reeses]

Fixed link: Satellite Confirms Urban Heat Islands Increase Rainfall

[Clay Moore]

I think most of the problems with the Leaf would be solved if they would call it a "Type R," slap some stickers on it and put a speaker in the back to make that fart pipe sound.

[ArrogantBustard]

water droplets that refract all wavelengths

If you wish to have credibility discussing this topic, please learn the difference between refraction and reflection.

Satellite Confirms Urban Heat Islands Increase Rainfall:

Interesting effect, but what has it to do with power plant exhaust gases?

[The Great RJ]

Try using the defroster, heater, windshield wipers, air conditioner or even the radio and watch the mileage drop even faster. Imagine the range when temperatures get below freezing. If your commute is on a day with temperatures just above freezing with wet snow necessitating use of the defroster, heater and windshield wipers, better be prepared to take the bus.

[Charles Martel]

I think I'll stick with my good 'ole American Muscle. Gas mileage sucks, emissions will choke a horse but when I hit the go peddle is sucks up leaf's with over 800 rwhp.

I hear the Corvette will even let you run the heater in freezing temperatures and not reduce your chances of making it home as a cost of warming your toes.

Ain't these new technological innovations grand?

[stompk]

Forged 402 with an 8 rib supercharger (15#’s of boost), Trickflow heads, Fast 92 intake, methanol injection, 80# injectors and headers. 237/249 114+2, 622-.628 lift cam.

URH! URH! URH! PM me pics of the beauty bits !!

[Reeses]

please learn the difference between refraction and reflection.

Reflect is what clouds do, refract is how they do it. My goal was to point out you cannot see actual water vapor, a global warming gas, only clouds, a global cooling liquid.

[stompk]

Try using the defroster, heater, windshield wipers, air conditioner or even the radio and watch the mileage drop even faster.

Wait till the younger gen finds out what subs and amps do to it.

[ArrogantBustard]

OK ... would you like to address the connection (if any) between increased rainfall downwind of an urban “heat island” and power plant effluent?

[zeugma]

I'll give you a hint, though: that plume looks like water vapor, to me.

But... don't you know that water vapor is a greenhouse gas? It's way worse than CO2, by orders of magnitudes! That just can't be good for the environment!

[Publius6961]

especially if they live, work and shop within a small area that doesn't require a lot of driving.
It's well-equipped, too, with standard features such as a navigation system, Bluetooth phone connection and automatic climate control

This doofus doesn't realize that those are contradictory statements. Short drives ---small area --- in my book is twenty miles or less.

and what idiot would need GPS and automatic climate control to commute 20 miles.
Anyone who would buy this car in snow country is about 5 cans short of a six-pack.

[mowowie]

Decisions, Decisions.....

[Publius6961]

Yeah, it’s fun until someone hits you. Then, KABOOM! Those batteries in those cars are highly explosive. I wouldn’t want to be any where near an electric car when it gets hit.

I'm surprised it took 37 posts for the moonbats to come out of the rockpile.

Oh yeah. You forgot that the battery weighs 600 pounds, when you sell it you need to pay $20k toxic waste fee, the mine that produces the battery is a wasteland and you get acne while driving it.

Hilarious!

Name just one credible, documented case of an electric car exploding (any worse than a regular gas powered car would under similar circumstances.)

[mowowie]

Decisions, Decisions.....

[Reeses]

Every watt of power eventually ends up as waste heat. Waste heat absorbed by water ends up as additional rain. Some of the waste heat is carried off by water at the power plant, some at the cities where most of the power is used. Power plant waste heat plus water has to increase rainfall.

[mowowie]

"Wait until there are four employees driving Leafs to work and only one outlet available for recharging"

[newnhdad]

electric cars make sense as a second/third vehicle but most people can’t afford the cost of owning two-three cars.
I could see using it to go to the store twice a week and drive the kids around town but nothing that will be longer than a ten miles each way.

It’s an awful lot of money and maintainence for a status symbol.

[Publius6961]

My goal was to point out you cannot see actual water vapor, a global warming gas

Only if you belong to Gore's Universal Church of Global Warming...

[ArrogantBustard]

I see ... you really don't have any science to back it up; it's just a hypothesis on your part.

That's fine if you don't claim otherwise.