> From: brucedp5 <[email protected]> > > http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/latest-reviews/2014-nissan-leaf-great-daily-driver-limits-article-1.1771417 > BY Christian Wardlaw, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS April 28, 2014 > > From my neck of the L.A. woods...
LA has WOODS? Amazing! > This situation exemplifies the limitations of living with an electric > vehicle. Ask Nissan, and the automaker will tell you that most Americans > drive fewer than 33 miles per day, a distance the 2014 Leaf easily travels. > But for any trip outside of the daily norm, you need to perform serious > advance planning or you need to drive a different vehicle. I think it's hardly fair comparing "most Americans" to an LA driver. LA has to be the most auto-intense place on the planet! I've lived a number of places, and each one has what I call an "event horizon" — the mean time it takes you to go to an event. Here on our wee island of under 10,000 souls, it's fifteen minutes. You can get almost anywhere you need to get in fifteen minutes -- 20 tops. When I first moved to Portland, Oregon, in the early 80s, it was a twenty-minute town. That had doubled by the time I moved here, in 2006. I once had contract work in Brea, just outside of LA. People would say things like, "Hey, we saw this great movie last night; you should go see it!" or "We went to this great restaurant; you should try it!" "How far is it?" I'd invariably ask? "Oh, not far. Just two hours." LA has a two-hour event horizon! It is inappropriate for most electric cars! Of course, that can work to your advantage, when you tell the boss you have to take your car in for repair. "Okay, we'll see you after lunch!" is the standard reply, knowing you've got two hours there and two hours back. :::: Cheap energy brought centralization, urbanization and globalization. Expensive energy will bring decentralization, de-urbanization and localization. -- Pat Murphy :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
