13 Jul '12, 2pm

Renault-Nissan Alliance pushes electric vehicle vision at Rio+20

It cost few to add a range extender in these battery electric cars and that few added cost add a huge selling advantage to the car. Look at the volt vs leaf sale differential . People don't want to move backward, this is something green aficionado do not understand. Just half hearted half brained theory won't push people to forget unlimited range offered by pure gasoline cars and make a switch to a costlier car that go few miles, need arduous no nonsense recharge. If there is a range extender, it add just few cost and erase the range and refueling problem. To date there is just the volt that offer this and even if it sale at a higher price then the leaf or imiev, it sale more. What they can do is to offer a hydrogen range extender. I calculated that it add few cost because you can reduce the battery size and all the car remain electric. They should begin commercialisation ...

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