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Why did they have to make it a Murano? The only thing I thought was nice about the original leaf was that it was smaller than most electric cars.
Market share as a percentage of EVs dropped from gen one to gen two, my guess is they blamed that on it not being a SUV rather on them charging too much for gen two vs. gen one. Larger car also means being able to charge more, batteries are about half the cost to make an ev still.
It was £22k in 2014, for a 22kwh battery, or over £30k today, utter madness. Today I can buy same sized battery in a brand new small hatchback for less than £20k.
Gen two also undersized the battery vs what the price point was set vs expectations at for the initial models. They should have lead with the 40kw and 62kw models but I guess they had problems sourcing the batteries.
Same with that new bolt.
I'm a little more forgiving with the bolt because it isn't that much bigger, and it isn't completely fugly anymore.
It says the new leaf is 3 inches shorter and .8 inches wider. Same height. So it's about the same size as before.
Well that's a small relief. Still, it looks just like a Murano.
Aww I liked the way the bolt looked. Even the euv
Because all middle managers all have the same ideas
The size is about the same with a lower drag coefficient.