interesting article "The Environmental Protection Agency, which tests vehicles for emissions and fuel efficiency, has determined Leaf’s official range to be 73 miles on a fully charged battery, considerably less than the 100 miles previously claimed by Nissa" "Because drivers cannot simply stop at a gas station and refuel, the Leaf’s range is expected to weigh heavily on shoppers’ minds. Adding to any confusion they might feel, the Leaf will have a second sticker, from the Federal Trade Commission, displaying the car’s range as 96 to 110 miles." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/business/23leaf.html?hp
Cool. I was going to post Nissan Leaf snags 99 mpg rating on official EPA sticker — Autoblog Green, but you beat me to it.
EPA says 73 mile EV range, and further says 340 wh/mile. Works out to a usable capacity of 24.82 kwh.
Sounds like one fed group csme up with one particular range number, while another branch of the feds came up with another mpg calculation. Oh, and yea ... the leaf range DOES seem to weigh heavily on buyer's minds. Undoubtely, that's why the 1st 20,000 reservation spots filled up so quickly, you can't even get one now until 2012. Yep, it certainly seems to bother folks. .
