Our rush hour near-blizzard this week left many commuters on the road for 4=
, 6, or even 8 hours. Clearly this would have been difficult in an electric=
, presumably relying on resistance heating. A Leaf might well have drain=
ed its batteries in the first several hours. Cars abandoned in that tie-up =
cost owners $350 to recover! So I recall my former VW van that had the g=
asoline-fired 'furnace'-- a burner with heat exchanger and fan-circulated c=
lean air. While I don't expect hobbyists to resolve this problem, it wou=
ld seem incumbent on Nissan and any later entrants into the all-electric ma=
rket to offer a solution similar to that offered by VW for 40 years-- altho=
ugh perhaps using compressed gas, not gasoline. Other opinions??
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, presumably relying on resistance heating. A Leaf might well have drain=
ed its batteries in the first several hours. Cars abandoned in that tie-up =
cost owners $350 to recover! So I recall my former VW van that had the g=
asoline-fired 'furnace'-- a burner with heat exchanger and fan-circulated c=
lean air. While I don't expect hobbyists to resolve this problem, it wou=
ld seem incumbent on Nissan and any later entrants into the all-electric ma=
rket to offer a solution similar to that offered by VW for 40 years-- altho=
ugh perhaps using compressed gas, not gasoline. Other opinions??
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