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Can A Car By Practical And Environmentally Friendly At The Same Time?
Are you more than ready to stop purchasing gas? In December 2010, the Nissan Leaf will be available in select markets in the United States. Advocates of environmentally friendly products have been talking about other choices for powering cars for years. Is it finally time? Will it be practical for the average consumer?
There are a lot of reasons to go electric.
The Nissan Leaf is completely emissions free. That’s music to the ears of anyone who believes it’s ridiculous to pollute the air we breathe to the point where we need a smog alert system. When the air is unhealthy to breathe, the Air Quality Management District issues a smog alert, advising people not to exercise outdoors. Soccer practices, picnics and recesses are cancelled and people are forced indoors. All because we can't seem to break our addiction to gasoline powered engines. What if driving your car didn't pollute the air at all? Imagine that everyone drives a car that doesn't pollute the environment. The Nissan Leaf won't even end up in a landfill at the end of its life. It's made of almost all recyclable materials.
Imagine bypassing the gas station - every time you see one. Most electric and hybrid cars, including the new Chevy Volt, do use gasoline when the electric power is depleted. The Leaf doesn't. This car runs on electricity only. You'll never pull up to the pump again. You won’t know or care whether gas is more than $3 a gallon. The downside of an all electric car has been one of the main impediments to widespread acceptance of these vehicles. When the battery runs out of juice, you can’t switch over to gas. In the past, limited range has kept electric cars from being practical. Nissan has solved most of the problem – not perfectly for all situations, but certainly well enough for most consumers. The Leaf can go 100 miles on a charge. That’s more than enough for most people. The vast majority of drivers travel far less than 100 miles in a day. Most Leaf owners can drive as much as they need to during the day, and then plug it in overnight at home. So now you’re paying for electricity instead of gas, right? How cost effective is that? Charging the Leaf would cost about $2.80 at average electricity rates. Yep – that's less expensive than the price of one gallon of gas.
The challenge comes in on long drives. During a long drive like a family vacation or a trip to a different state, a driver would have to stop along the way to charge the battery, which used to take hours if you could find a charging station. A quick charge station can charge the Leaf’s battery will charge up to 80% in about half an hour. That's sufficient to make long trips practical. Drivers could stop for lunch and charge the car at the same time. It even makes sense for restaurants that cater to long-distance travelers to install quick charge stations – if there are enough Nissan Leafs on the road.
Purchase price has been a major obstacle for electric cars. New technology is expensive. Nissan is offering the Leaf for around $35K in the United States. There is some speculation that Nissan is willing to lose money at the beginning in order to establish itself as the major player in the electric car market. The price of the Leaf is higher in Japan. Car buyers can claim a $7,500 tax credit, bringing the effective price down to $27,500. This is low enough to compete with the Toyota Prius and the Honda CR-V.
There are still challenges to alternative fuel vehicles, but I think Nissan has solved enough of them to make the Leaf a practical car for most drivers.
Written by Hannah Valez
Nissan Riverside
How do you prime a pump?
John De Vries Wealth for the Nations
We have to assume you do not have a submersible pump in an outside well. There will most likely be a 3/4" pipe plug or cap on a pipe coming off the top of the pump housing that can be removed. Pour water into the pipe till it starts overflowing and then turn on the pump. Water will probably come back up from the pipe, and then slow down, or it will be sucked down and need more. In either case, you should have several gallons of water on hand, as sometimes it takes just pouring water into the pipe till the pump catches a prime and starts pulling water. When it does the water will start shooting up out of the fill pipe and you can cap it. If you can cap it while it's still runing, that's best, and you'll probably get wet doing it. If you can't then turn it off for whatever time it takes to get it capped and turn it back on. It should be primed.
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