Exterior Colors

Decisions, decisions! That is what Nissan Leaf potential owners will have to respond quickly when the company finally rolling on this wonderful all-electric, touted to travel 100 miles on a single battery charge. Nissan customers in Chicago are among those weighing on stocks in Leaf pages, Nissan has created to better assess the needs of their customers.

Some early images show the color options in silver leaf, red and black. (With black is probably the clearest.) But these warnings are not permanently Nissan colors final, just the samples used to get an idea of what most customers want.

Your Nissan dealer in Chicago is also interested in what Nissan discovers how buyers manage the sheet. Are they more often or carpooling moms will commuters want a leaf? Is that the standard trim levels is the norm or buyers will want to upgrade to the SL trim? Where will they park the sheet to recharge?

Nissan will need to answer all these questions to successfully sell the model sheet when it debuted. The map will also get some competition before long. Toyota will launch the first all-electric Prius in a few months and the kitchen Mitsubishi iMiEV the foreground. From what we gathered so far, Leaf has the longest range on a single charge - about 30 miles more than the iMiEV.

Chicago Nissan customers will want a list to make sure you can get one without waiting for months on a list. Nissan has been pleasantly surprised by the number of reservations they have received on the page sheet.

Chicago Nissan dealers are flooded with demand for the new sheet. It will be interesting to see how much buyers are willing to adapt to the need to load their vehicle and where and how they manage to find a power source.

If I were smart I would say even now plans to build recharging stations in key locations where the largest number of all-electric cars are sold. I think it will be a challenge for anyone to make enough money to support such a venture while charging prices (no pun intended) for electricity seems reasonable to plug-in drivers. Of course, when someone wants to go home after a long day, they can not quibble about costs of loading.

There are many issues to solve and obstacles to overcome in electric vehicles. Many have not yet been reviewed, I'm sure. The main question is: How do car manufacturers to overcome the public insecurity, ignorance and concern when it comes to plug-ins? What is the incentive to buy?