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Junkyard Find: Nissan Leafpocalypse in California

The Truth About Cars

I've been documenting electric cars in junkyards for about a decade. Then some of the early golf-cart-esque electric LSVs that sold in California during the mid-to-late 2000s began showing up in the Pick-n-Pulls of the Golden State. Good replacement batteries for these cars aren't cheap.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. The Renault-Nissan Alliance is building fleet charging stations in Portland and Phoenix. Electric cars a still a joke. Considering the cost of batteries, these are disposable cars.