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Nissan Leaf’s government subsidized attempt to garner support with taxi drivers is failing spectacularly. In less than 2 years of use, the 60 mile battery has degraded to 30 miles per charge. Instead of 15 minutes to charge the battery, it now takes 40 minutes. This is wasted time for taxi drivers. To save energy as much as possible, some drivers are shunning the car’s heater in favor of chemical pocket warmers, and even blankets. In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, electricity is no longer seen as the clean, safe option it once was.

If everyone switched to electric cars, we would need 7 times more power plants. These power plants would burn oil or coal or use nuclear radiation power. More would be placed near people’s neighborhoods.

Electric cars are simply not green. They just shift the source of pollution elsewhere. They would also risk more nuclear disasters. They are also not efficient use of oil since you have to burn more barrels of oil to power an electric car than that used to power a gas car.

Far better are hybrids or alternative fuel source cars – such as alcohol or biodiesel cars. They have renewable sources of energy.

Compare Nissan’s experience with the spectacular success of Toyota’s Prius and Prius V with Taxi drivers.

If electric cars don’t work for Taxi Drivers, then they are not worth it at all.
Taxi Drivers are the ultimate testers for reliability and longevity of cars.