The major difference between these cars is that while the leaf is a pure electric vehicle, the volt has the gasoline engine as the backup. Thus, if your charge runs out while you are out, the engine starts charging the battery and you are still on the move.
Re: Major Difference
by Sachin Purohit on Nov 29, 2010 05:59 PM
Well, in that sense there is no pure electric vehicle. Nissan takes electricity from the home point. But the home point gets its electricity from a power plant that has gasoline or gas or some other carbon-based electricity generation (with few exceptions where hydro-electricity is at work).
If gasoline is charging battery and not directly running the car, then there should not be any issues. It is always more efficient when you burn fuels to generate electricity that runs car rather than directly running a car on fuel. That's something that we are currently doing. It seems like the gasoline backup only helps in getting rid of a major limitation of electric cars - of not being able to run them in long journeys.
Re: Re: Major Difference
by samit on Nov 30, 2010 01:41 AM
So if the charge runs out, does backup gasoline recharges the batttery or does the gasoline power the car directly?
In either case, there are many advantages of electric cars over gasoline cars.
Re: Will these cars be available in india?
by Raashid Baig on Nov 29, 2010 04:46 PM
To my knowledge there are no plans to launch them in India any time soon. I hope they will launch it in India in coming years.
