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Re:Mercedes kills their only electric car by aphextron on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @12:25PM (#14902431)
Hyundai, Chevy, and Nissan are doing sold work, too. Like it or not, the Leaf was the first mass adopted full size, purpose built EV available in the US at a reasonable price. It's a great car, and the next gen being released this week (!!!) has an estimated 200mi range[0]. Hyundai just released the Ioniq with 120 miles (200+ expected next gen) range, and the highest average KW/Mile efficiency of any EV ever made [1], at a price point < $30k sticker price before incentives.

All told, there will be 6 mass production EVs from 6 different manufacturers with ~200 mile range or greater at the $30k price point or below by this time next year. Exciting stuff.

http://carttraction.com/2018-nissan-leaf/ [0]

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/20/hyundai-ioniq-ev-hybrid-... [1]

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Re:Mercedes kills their only electric car by icc97 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:10PM (#14906337)
The leaf is still ugly unfortunately, but in all other accounts it seems to be a great car.

This is one of the main differentiators that I've seen with Teslas, they actually make electric cars that look better than petrol cars, not freaks of nature. It makes them actually desirable rather than just doing it for the good of humanity.

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