I haven't driven the Spark to compare, but I've driven the Leaf and the Focus, and both of them were quite peppy --- more so than my Prius, which is quite peppy itself, I think (okay... my other car is a 58 horsepower diesel isuzu pickup, so my definition of peppy might be different than most).
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jamie K <ja...@jamiekrutz.com> wrote: > > Having driven both the Spark and the Leaf, IMO the article overstates the > performance advantage of the Spark. They both have more than sufficient > acceleration for city driving. Meanwhile the Leaf offers important feature > advantages. > > And Zeke is right, the Spark has a huge distribution DISadvantage. Making > the current Spark, sadly, a compliance car. Along with Fiat and Honda. > > Cheers, > -Jamie > > > On 3/11/14 3:27 PM, Zeke Yewdall wrote: > >> With a price that is a fraction of the Tesla Model S, the Spark EV has >> many >> >>> times more potential customers. Basically, the Model S is a toy of the >>> wealthy while the Spark EV is clearly built for the masses. >>> >>> When it comes to the direct competition, the Spark EV holds a significant >>> performance edge over the Nissan Leaf, Fiat 500 E, Honda Fit EV and Ford >>> Focus electric. >>> >>> >> Unfortunately, the Leaf and the Tesla hold an enormous advantage over the >> Spark.... they're actually available for purchase outside of a few select >> states. That's why I see Leaf's all the time, and a few Teslas driving >> around, here in Colorado, and have never seen a Spark. If you don't >> offer >> it for sale, it's hard to compete... >> >> Z >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/ >> attachments/20140311/f1ca4f79/attachment.htm> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ >> group/NEDRA) >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use 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/20140313/9a06ee92/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
