In Bulgaria we have these taxi in a year now and many people use it.

Should turn out to be a wonderful application for these vehicles. I suspect the charging won't be too much of a problem, but for the standing time maintaining AC or heat for the driver / passengers.

Leaf leaves me speechless except........................wow!

If you want an overly expensive cab with increasingly short range, and the mother of expensive replacement part go electric.

It will be interesting to see how this works out for the taxi operators. I think that the range limitation of the Leaf will hinder normal taxi operations. I guess that Nissan is not charging money for the use of the cars which might make up for the loss of revenue when the cars cannot be as heavily utilized as a conventional car. Most taxis run on an 18-20 hour a day duty cycle which will not work with a full EV like the Leaf. Maybe NYC should consider the idea of a "dual medallion" which would cover two EVs with only one being allowed to be on-duty at at time. Telematics could be used to keep the taxi company honest.

When I was driving a taxi, I racked up about 200 miles a day, and that's about typical. These taxis will have to be recharged about 5 times per shift, that's 2-1/2 hours of down time- per day.

Report: Holland Tunnel is shut down - seems a Leaf ran out of charge sitting in the backup Waiting for tow truck to pull it out

hello. what about a fleet of a few hundred quiet electric Leafs wirelessly recharging at every intersection within the city grid?

So I guess now when you get into a taxi in New York, you gotta ask the driver if he has the charge to get to your destination and then back to a charging station...yeah...this is a stupid idea! I have a coworker who has the Leaf, and while he loves the thing, it has just enough juice to get him to work and home again. If he decides to go out for lunch, he has a sphincter clenching ride home as his last 10 miles his car informs him he's on zero charge....He's showed me the diamonds his butt created from the clenching, nerve wracking drive! So I guess Taxi drivers have to take a fare...then level 3 charge it for an hour just to take the next fare....not very efficient use of drivers time.

re; rollzone
How many EVs can be charged at one time without blowing the electric grid.