Pode o Leaf ser o carro que vai vulgarizar os VE's?

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Pode o Leaf ser o carro que vai vulgarizar os VE's? (Is the Nissan LEAF going to bring electric cars to the mainstream?)

"Well when I was researching the Nissan electric car, the LEAF, I instantly noticed the first huge advantage of a mainstream manufacturer making an electric car, the abundance of information on it! Most of the time when I research an electric car I find so many vague facts and half truths that I start to wonder if they exist at all. This is the first car that I can get information on through a local dealer and not some website in America or a speciality dealer I have to travel hours to see!

The Nissan LEAF is a hatchback 5 seat electric powered car and is designed to compete with a 1.6l engine car according to Nissan. This is the type of car most families have as a second car in Ireland and I think the range won’t be a great problem as if people buy it as a second car it usually won’t need to be driven more than the 160km range in one go. Even if they buy it as a city car it would do a pretty good job and you won’t stand out in it as for an electric car it looks pretty good, as there have been some brutal looking ones!. It has also won the European Car of the Year 2011 award which is a huge boost for electric cars and shows the progress that's being made.

It has all the electric car trimmings like regenerative braking, an aerodynamic body and even more like low voltage LED lights which Nissan don’t even have on any of their other cars yet. The Nissan electric car can also connect with your with an app on your phone to see how much it’s charged, so you can check up on your car while you sit in the coffee shop relaxing. Sat Nav, climate control, cruise control and a rear parking camera all come standard on the Irish version of the car as there is only one model coming to Ireland. These all seem like power draining and mostly unneeded devices but that’s the way they went so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

The Leaf is going to have a 140km/h top speed and a 160km range which is quite good although this figure usually halves in the real world unless you really try to get the most out of it by driving like a granny. It has a fast charge of 80% in 30 minutes and, good news if you live in Ireland because the ESB (electricity supply board) has announced that it will install home charging points for free to the first 2,000 electric vehicle customers."

Em: http://www.all-electric-vehicles.com/Ni ... c-Car.html