With a top speed just shy of 90mph,the Leaf doesn’t fill many pretensions in the boy racer department Often, when I think an idea won’t catch on (the mobile phone, or the breakfast bar),it’s just because I haven’t thought about it as tough as its inventor has; I fear this may be true of the Nissan Leaf. It struck me as inherently preposterous to design a car that has to be delivered on the back of another car, because no one can be certain it’ll fabricate (to make up, invent) the journey on electricity alone.While we’re here, or why eschew the option of a petrol hybrid? Why not throw in some petrol so that the superbly organised can bask in their advantage,having remembered to charge it for eight (or 16) hours the night before (depending on the voltage), while the feckless can be allowed to sometimes forget?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com