This makes sense... question is how many miles does a typical transport van do in a day? (city transport mind you). I can imagine this with UPS and or FedEx if they need it... I really don't see these trucks doing more than 60 miles a day... anyone have these numbers?

Please for the love of Volt give us FIVE (5, cinco, Fünf, Cinque, Cinq, Пять, 五, חמש , خمسة, Πέντε, पांच, Beş, Cinci) seats!

I love this... it is so 'out of left field' that it works for me... Yes I am smart enough to know every month I will have to be out of pocket 1051 bucks, yes I know that I will not be paying for gas thus I can subtract that amount (theoretically)... but the fact still stands... I am one step closer to owning one of these fantastic cars... and that makes me, and I am sure many others, smiling all the way to the bank... Elon don't change we love you just the way you are!

Put that same battery in a leaf... Or for that fact any other electric car an range worries will be a thing of the past.... The best is here but the better is yet to come

I just want a fifth seat! That said it would be taking a step backwards especially knowing that gas prices will only get higher... the point of car sales is to sell the car, not make you think about it... personally if they do bring down the range then i would just head out the door and into a Ford and buy a Fusion plug in.... less miles but more comfort, and in my opinion better looking.

So lets say there is a gigantic earthquake in Arizona and the Hover dam fails sending a tilde wave down stream destroying and killing hundreds maybe thousands... Is Hydro electric bad?
I understand about the radiation factor but the ones at fault here where the builders of the plants themselves. On a rock face in Fukashima there is an inscription dating a couple of hundred years ago showing how high the water level rose during a Tsunami. If the nuclear company that build the plants would have paid attention they should have build the reactors much higher to avoid such a recorded Tsunami wave height.... And now you have nuclear meltdown form something that could have been avoided.

I have set my minimum to 20 miles per charge... Anything less is considered just a hybrid for me not a plug-in hybrid... The fact that Toyota and Honda came up with such little milage (battery packs) is just baffling, considering that they have been in the game the longest.
The winner in the plug in for me is the Ford Fusion plug-in... why not the Volt? cause the Volt only has 4 seats fusion 5 and I am a family of five... Now that said I really wish the Fusion had a 30 miles (or more) per charge battery. (but I'll take it)
The reality is that the magic number for plug-in is 40 miles per charge, because that is what the average American drives per day maximum. So I am sure we will see those numbers in the near future.

Yeah I do have an opinion... how about the Leaf and the Tesla Model S... no pollution... green manufacturing (recycled materials and or future easy recyclable materials). Big question is batteries... but we already have answers to that, after 30% or around there depletion, batteries are removed and replaced with new ones giving that car another 10 years in fact this could go on for decades! And what happens to the batteries they get used in other places i.e. the home in which you can get another 20 to 30 years from them... then from there they can be sent to third world to aid in electrical grids and or in 30 years we should have a way to recycle those materials... So for me they should be #1 and #2 and stay there for years to come...

Wow! Kudos to Nissan! they blew it out of the park! Just imagine and electric car for under $23,000! move over Fiat, Mini and VW electric Leaf is here to stay!

I rather spend $6800 on a 2000-2006 2 seat Honda Insight that gets 70 mpg.