Buyers expecting to lead the electric-car revolution are faced with the slow-charge cycle when the question of deliveries of their new vehicles arises.

Nissan stated that several customers among the twenty thousand who pre-ordered the Leaf all-electric car will have to wait months longer than they expected. Those customers signing up to buy in the last summer and hoping delivery of the car this month or the coming month might have to wait till the month of May or June.

General Motors stated that currently, wait times probably average two to four months for customers buying a Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-in car in accordance to expectations.

The delays are important because of the expectations of the auto industry to please early adopters of electric cars. If new adopters have good experiences with the new technology, car manufacturers are sure they will propaganda it to wary mainstream car buyers.

The greatest trouble lies in brewing among restive Leaf buyers feeling miserable by the lack of updated estimates on deliveries from Nissan.

Eugen Dunlop of Davis, Calif stated that they don't have any idea of what is going on. He ordered a Leaf in the last summer and had been expecting delivery by about now. He further stated that the company is falling a little short.

Barbara Odza, staying in Los Angeles states that she has gone through that stage of disappointment in the beginning but states further that she has waited this long.

Nissan admitted that they have given overoptimistic delivery-time estimates to their prospective buyers. Brian Carolin, the senior Vice President states that his estimates of how long it would take for the Leafs, to arrive didn't end up interlocking with the car's production schedule in Japan.