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How are those Coal Burning Electric cars working out for you.

From International Business Times, November 17, 2010:

Nissan aims to sell 500,000 electric vehicles annually by 2013
Automaker Nissan Motor will sell 500,000 electric vehicles annually by the end of 2013, Renault Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn told reporters on eve of the market debut of the Nissan Leaf.

Nissan is launching its all-electric Leaf, which has a 100 mile range, in December. It plans to sell 20,000 Leafs in the United States over the next year.

Ghosn predicts that because of strong consumer demand, Nissan will be "capacity constrained" for the Leaf for the next three years.

And the reality -- here is a screencap from this report: 87 sales in January and 67 sales in February. Good for them that they were able to manufacture and sell another 64,355 vehicles in January and 83,159 in February... It's not even not ready for prime time, it will never be. I can see small utility vehicles -- licensed golf carts and the like but never a replacement for internal combustion. Posted by DaveH at March 5, 2011 4:19 PM