I asked our local Nissan dealership (Opelousus Louisiana) about looking at a Leaf. He said that they had one a few years ago but it did not sell so they shipped it to another dealership. Several years ago we asked a salesman at the Ford dealership (Lafayette Louisiana) about getting an Escape hybrid. He spent a lot of time trying to explain why hybrid cars were a bad idea in the hot South. He pushed us to buy an ICE Explorer so we left. BobK
On Sep 27, 2017 5:35 AM, "Chris Tromley via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Had an interesting encounter at the Mitsubishi dealer last night. I had > been in the night before to drop of my i-MiEV to reset an errant SRS > (airbag) light. I kindly older gent in a dealer logo shirt helped me take > care of that. Last night to pick it up the same guy came out as I was > going in, and he stopped me to ask how I liked my car. I told him I loved > it, but didn't press the issue because I wan't to get back home. > > Turns out he owns the place. He informed me (in the most friendly, car > dealer kind of way), that he refuses to sell the i-MiEV there. The short > version of his reasoning is that whenever he gets an electric trade-in > (even the Toyotas!), the batteries are toast and they're "running on the > engine only." He "just doesn't want to see the customers get hurt." (And > BTW, the only plug-ins we get here in PA are full electric. And I'm pretty > sure my i-MiEV is one of maybe 3 that he's ever seen.) > > I was being as polite as possible, but I must have given him a "that makes > no sense at all' sort of expression. He then proceeded to tell me that the > Space Station has 7000 - 8000 lbs of batteries, which they need because > they "just keep going through them" - they're just not reliable enough. He > saw he was getting no traction with me so he nicely but abruptly broke off > the conversation. > > Just for a giggle I googled when I got home. At > https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/01/spacewalkers- > upgrading-iss-batteries/ > I found that the ISS batteries are NiH2 and they're very reliable but > they're reaching the end of their lives. So they swapped some out for > lithium this year, and those have vastly improved performance and energy > density. > > Is this typical of the looney-toons crapola people have to deal with when > buying an EV? Seriously - that was some truly 'out-there' BS he was > shoveling, and he did so as if it was as evident as the sky being blue. > > We humans have SO much evolving yet to do. > > Chris > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/ > attachments/20170927/7e9efcaf/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170927/01c18efa/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
