People Say Erich Marx is NOT Part of the Dept. of Energy Fraud Connected to SOLYNDRA..... That Made Me Happy... All He's Doing is Marketing "Crappy" EV's Built with OUTDATED Technology....

NISSAN Whistleblower told Leaf was to be an "Image car"and not intended to be mass marketed. Then WHY did NISSAN take OVER 1 Billion dollars of DOE taxpayer money to build a battery plant to MASS produce batteries?

The NISSAN Leaf REALLY cost 63,000 to 67,000 just to manufacture. 

The $63,000 Leaf price is achieved by statements from and industry expert who said “the non battery part of the Leaf would be approx. 15-20K” then added “that does not include marketing or R & D”  & realistically the car cost 80k. 

 

Each Leaf battery has 48 modules and each module cost about $1000 to produce*.  That’s $48,000 JUST for the battery modules.  *Nissan says they will replace the modules for about $650; I was told it's due to "recycling"...

“replacing a single module in the Leaf's 48-module battery pack would cost £404” Andy Palmer Board Member NISSAN Motors.  (that’s 48K for JUST parts of the battery pack)  http://green.autoblog.com/2011/08/03/need-to-replace-a-nissan-leaf-battery-hows-19-392-31-753-u/

Carlos Ghosn says the Leaf will NOT be built it it’s not profitable. Other’s have said NISSAN has to sell 500,000 just to break even.  It cost NISSAN 80K to make a Leaf & they sell the car for 33k.  To the average eye NOW it looks like a Ponzi scheme.    

NISSAN has been secretive about the battery cost for a reason

Carlos Ghosn said the Renault EV spy scandal http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12160430  was about the “business model”.   

Sharyn Bovat worked with top NISSAN and Renault executives. They did NOT want anyone to know details of the EV (some used code words). 

Others at NISSAN communicated to Sharyn that the Leaf was “built to fail” & that NISSAN would go bankrupt “if” the Leaf succeeded. 

The retail price of the Leaf is $33,000 the federal subsidies are $7,500 some states are adding an EXTRA $2,500 - $5,000 of incentives.  

The NISSAN Leaf is 65% to 75% subsidized.  

NISSAN says the “average” income for Leaf owners is OVER $140,000.

Sharyn Bovat blogged before the DOE loan closed that the “Leaf would fail” and she’s suffered retaliation in asking NISSAN for transparency in reference to the federal DOE loan that NISSAN was granted for 1.4 Billion by the DOE to create an EV  battery plant in Smyrna Tennessee.

The bank used to obtain the DOE taxpayer funded "cash" is a US government bank that was created to give loans to the Veteran’s and Post Office & is notorious for NOT getting repaid.

Why is a bank created for American interest being used for a FOREIGN company that does business with IRAN?

NISSAN partners with Renault & Renault does business in Iran. Car sales for Renault have increased 70% this year.

NISSAN shares technology with Renault.   

Iran is sending weapons to KILL American soldiers.

Back to the economic issue:

NISSAN has only sold about 30,000 Leafs in America and about 12,000 worldwide.

When asking for DOE money Carlos Ghosn said that

“by 2012” there would be 100,000.  Revised DOE stats show 50,000.

 This year NISSAN has sold about 3000.

NISSAN will not give out the statistics on “who’s buying the Leafs”.