# Albany Capital District EV Drivers

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**Created:** [June 24, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/albany-capital-district-ev-drivers/267288 "2013-06-24T18:27:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Kamm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike_kamm/32/6417_2.png) [@Mike\_Kamm](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike_Kamm)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/albany-capital-district-ev-drivers/267288/9 "2013-06-24T20:14:16Z")

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> [@"Mexican" Food in WNY v.best CHAIN / FRANCHISE](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mexican-food-in-wny-v-best-chain-franchise/53048/19):
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> Mike, when I clicked the link or searched on FB, nothing came up. What made you go with a Fit over the LEAF?

Thanks for letting me know. I had the group in a private setting. I just changed it to public. See if it works now please.

My interest in EV’s started with the original anouncement by Nissan of the coming of the Leaf. But I was never crazy about the Leaf’s styling. So when the smokin’ lease deal appeared late last month for the Fit EV, I jumped on the only one in the capital district.

I took it to Lebanon Vallay last Wed. night. I wanted to check the 1/4 mile performance data that Car and Driver reported in their instrumented tests. They claimed a 16.8 @ 83 mph.

[![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v452/blownb310/LVDFitEV004Edit_zps74ba1542.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/2/c/2c80fa3791e43e35d7601e4abd3d4dffc90f93e6.jpeg)](http://smg.photobucket.com/user/blownb310/media/LVDFitEV004Edit_zps74ba1542.jpg.html)

The only change I made to the car was to increase the tire pressures to 44 psi [max pressure rating on the sidewall of the Michelins.] I was able to better their elapsed time by quite a bit, but the mph was spot on.

[![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v452/blownb310/LVDFitEV007_zps46da5cd8.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/5/b/5b5b360d9954af54fd4ee2af50982f57747ed9a0.jpeg)](http://smg.photobucket.com/user/blownb310/media/LVDFitEV007_zps46da5cd8.jpg.html)

Run 1: 16.468 sec. @ 83.47 mph.

Run 2: 16.465 sec. @ 83.62 mph.

[![http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v452/blownb310/LVDFitEV008_zpsebd6af86.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/4/0423b290a2771a5fb3c36cdb39e0c8792f31e1a5.jpeg)](http://smg.photobucket.com/user/blownb310/media/LVDFitEV008_zpsebd6af86.jpg.html)

I snapped this pic just after the finish line. 😃

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