Depends on where you live. I could drive from my house to NYC with no problem, plenty of charging stations along 91, 84 and 95. I could drive to the airport which would be close to the limit of my range but theres charging ports (with preferential parking) at the airport. If I could get my employer to install a 220v charging port at the office I could make my 60 mile one way commute pretty decently during the summer. In the depths of winter it might be a stretch. My wife could easily do her 20 mile round trip... A friend of mine in LA has an electric Fiat, she pays around $100/mo for it, had to put $3,000 down but the state gave her half back. Overall she'll have the car 3 years and pay about $5000 total, all the service (minimal) is included in the lease. Thats not bad for a brand new car, if I could get that deal I'd have one. Sadly the Fiat electric is west coast only.
-Curt From: archer75--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] wow It's too soon to buy an all electric. There just aren't enough places to recharge if you run out of watts. I have a very "green" friend whose Prius wasn't green enough to suit him, so he bought a Leaf for his wife to drive to work in the fast bus lane since electrics are were allowed there. Then the county, in its infinite wisdom, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > Maybe it's wiser to look for a used Leaf. They tested it first and found that > it would make the round trip to her job and back without recharging. > Everything was working well until > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > > I like electric cars, I've driven both the Fiat and the Nissan Leaf, liked > > 'em both although I probably like the Leaf a little more. The Leaf is much > > bigger than the Smart, more like the size of a Golf. It was reasonably > > peppy, quiet and not at all a rattly deathtrap. If they were similarly > > priced I'd always go to the larger car. IMHO the Smart is waaaay > > overpriced, under featured and under mileage. > > -Curt > > > > From: Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Cc: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:12 PM > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] wow > > > > Yeah, that was a trick question. I was trying to "out" a sleeper agent for > > the electric car lobby... > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes < > > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > On 19/11/2015 2:12 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > > > > > >> I am jonesing for a Smart Electric. Anybody drive one? > > >> > > >> > > >> Do you honestly think that if we did drive one, that we would admit it? > > > > > > RB > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.6176 / Virus Database: 4460/11031 - Release Date: 11/19/15 > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com