{"id":1893,"date":"2010-10-31T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2010-10-31T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T03:16:48","slug":"leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/10\/leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric test drive #2: Nissan Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I <a href=\"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/10\/i-drove-a-new-car-today\/\">took a Chevy Volt for a test drive<\/a>. Today, I drove a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nissanusa.com\/leaf-electric-car\/index\">Nissan Leaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the test drive event, they had a little sales pitch thing with equipment displays and videos that they led us through first. I think they stretched it out a little too much to keep people occupied while they were waiting to drive, and it was incredibly corny. The style was almost exactly like what you see in the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Century21964\">World&#8217;s Fair films<\/a>, so I&#8217;m sure that in the future people will be laughing at the marketing pitches, because we&#8217;re laughing at them today.<\/p>\n<p>But, marketing aside, the test drive was okay. I could only take the car on a pre-defined route through the streets of San Jose, so unfortunately I never got to go more than 35 MPH and spent a good portion of the drive waiting at traffic lights. The car handles just like any other car, and I didn&#8217;t notice the regenerative braking as much as I did on the Volt. I&#8217;d have to try it out on a highway to form a more informed opinion, but right now I think I prefer the Leaf over the Volt in terms of driving experience.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder which car I&#8217;ll get to drive next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I took a Chevy Volt for a test drive. Today, I drove a Nissan Leaf. At the test drive event, they had a little sales pitch thing with equipment displays and videos that they led us through first. I think they stretched it out a little too much to keep people occupied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2010\/10\/leaf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric test drive #2: Nissan Leaf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}