I have the same Leaf. I can drive from my home to 14 miles away and still have the same estimated miles I left home with. I drive with it in B mode, (a double click in drive mode, heavy regen.) Only use heated seats and heated steering wheel. Light on the throttle.

Wow!! I’ve been to that exact charging station a few weeks ago. Nice video mate!

Great video , thanks. Tested mine, struggled with 70 but just did it

Nice... I have Nissan LEAF 30kWh as well... fun to watch your experience is quite similar to mine... I find that driving up a slight incline on the freeway uses more power bubbles more than speed does, but i try to keep around 60mph on freeway to keep the range as long as possible...

Great short haul car :) 30km round trip for work and most I do is 80klms on average for weekend stuff. Use leafspy if your buying a leaf, take on a test drive and look for sagging cells, if the owner has charged it up , all the cells will be balanced and look good. Go for a hard drive in it, work it a bit and look at the max cell drop, 50-100mv is fine . SOH and HX is key. I found 30kwh models with the same actual KWh as good condition 24s. Owners were asking 30% more price for the 30s yet only had the same as cheaper good health 24s. Eg 10bar 30 is a 11-12 bar 24. Not sure why Nissan sold the 30kwh , 6 kWh more isn’t ground breaking.

Finnaly a good review

I live like a mile from your destination lol Nice to see a local!

My 2016 Nissan Leaf is 30 kWh with 10 bars now (77% SOH) but I’m practically getting 180 km from 100% to 6% battery, with mixed driving on open road and otherwise. It is possible to attain that and more once you get better at coasting and driving more efficiently. Not slowly, just efficiently. I drive with eco mode off btw. That said, I’m in New Zealand and the temperature these days is early autumn, not that cold. Almost spring like.

How many KILOWATTS does a full charge consume? (From 0% to 100%)

My 30kwh 2016 lead usually gives me an estimated range of 186 km (115 miles) on a full charge with eco mode off. I only have 10 bars left. Usually that estimation is accurate, but only if I drive mostly on flat roads, be they open roads or internal ones. Obviously if your route is hilly and has lots of climb then your range will be a lot less than estimated.

As a not Leaf owner, I was anticipating some kWh readout at the end of the video? Especially as you practiced some serious hypermiling en route, which is how I drive most of the time too. Maybe not All is lost: I get 1 mile Per %, as you do, however I have a 20kwh battery, so that is 160Wh/mile (from the battery, not the Charger), so what size battery is in your Leaf?

I wonder what the future of the CHADEMO public station's are in my area?

And here is the problem I’ve been watching your speedometer and you’ve gone from 70 miles an hour to 56 miles an hour so you can’t stay at the speed limit that is a massive issue

How many average miles/kwh were you getting? I have a 2015 24kwh Leaf and I seem to be able to get somewhere around 4.2-4.5 mi/kwh. But I live in a warmer city area and don't do much high-speed highway driving.

minute 4:03 ??? very strange showing 114 miles potential, when the car's highest trim for potential range in the SV or SL trims is less than 110 miles according to Nissan Leaf's own specs:

As I understand it (in the states) the speed (upper) limit is usually 70 or 75 .. however nothing prevents you from going at a reasonable 60 :: which would greatly enhance you autonomy. Also remember to pre-heat your car : to be using the wall/charger current instead of the car's battery. -> also, if you know you are to travel longer distances : make sure you charge to 100% (not 95%) : and plan your recharges (distance to, where, available charger & types).

AC off... but heating on? AC and heating are not the same thing.

Now approaching the 8,000 price range in 2024, but a risky purchase for much of the SouthWest due to in ability to cool down making the car risy to drive from May to September (you could risk battery damage driving this car when it's over 100 degrees)

Interesting to see 5+ year old electric cars in the used market. Should open up an opportunity for people who can't afford a new car. New isn't always better.

Is that with the heater on?

They made Nissan Leafs with 30kw battery packs available in North America? How are you getting 114 miles on a full charge? Which battery do you have the 24kw or the 30kw?

I commute about 30 miles to work and have fast chargers at my work. Would you recommend this car for my situation? Neat video

I have this car also. It's all about heat management in my experience. Even in the cold Irish winter, 0 to 5 degrees celcius, I'm getting up to 130km or maybe 150km at a push. I never turn on the car heater or the ac. Instead I opt for the heated seats and steering, which don't appear to affect the range at all. I use the air blower (again, make sure the heater light is off) to keep the windows clear, usually switching it on and off as it can make the air in the car very cold. I also recommend driving around 90kph or less. I only do this when I need the longer range by the way. Most of the time I'm happy to use the heater as you would in a normal car, but sometimes you just need all of the range. Warning: wear warm socks and plenty of layers around the core

So in cold weather you can expect around 75mi range? Pretty disappointing for 30kW.

We have a 2016 30kWh Leaf with 18,000 miles. It just spent 3 months in the shop due to a bad battery cell. For us it's only an around town car. I never take it any farther than 40 miles from home base. A great grocery getter, but that's about all.

I put the air condition off....put the car in eco-mode and installed bike pedals...let's see if we get 60 miles of range out of the 200 miles promised while driving not harder than 55 mph downhill and 2 mph uphill!!!Warnig ...your range will drop to 20 miles when it is freezing and you put the aircondition on when it is only minus 20 degrees outside

Very accurate. I have a little concern regarding the 30kwh leafs. I bought mine with only 4000 miles on clock, so battery is pretty new. I noticed through doing some tests lately, I focused on miles per kwh. I achieved 4.5. now if you have a 30kwh or very close, then even at 4.0 miles per kwh should be 120. Mine was 4.5, so should be there to higher. I managed 99.3 miles with 8% left. So I'd say it would have been 105 at end. Interesting after another test, I got the car down to about 1% battery left, just made it home. I charge for 4 hours which I find 1 hour gives me 25%. So I got to 100% battery from very low. Yet it put in 23.6 kWh to get to 100%. But that's is not a full 30. It's almost like I bought a 24kwh version to be honest. It's a little odd. I know they say they can degrade, but a virtually new bettery should not be 6kwh less that quick for sure. Otherwise it would be dead in like 20000 miles lol

I have 2012 Nissan Leaf, only 4 bars left on this thing. At best we can get 22 miles out of it, needs to be charged every single night. My commute is 7.2 miles each way (goodness, I never knew that prior to getting an EV). Nissan wants ridiculous money for a battery replacement (no way I will pay $9,000). It`s a BAD deal all around, and somehow I still LOVE it lol. It ruins you for life as far as IC cars go. I literally don`t want to enter my formerly precious Dodge charger, because it`s a Flintstones era concept. EV is the way to go.

Great video and proves exactly why I won't be buying a EV anytime soon......claimed range and actual range are nothing like each other.

And thats 30kw? that sucks, no wonder they are getting killed by Tesla

range estimate was 30miles off and that's with ECO mode on and AC off. Thats bad because if he had turned on his heater then that range would have dropped another 10 or 20 effectively putting the car at 50 miles of total range, if your doing highway driving in cold weather.

Despite their limitations electric cars are way more efficient than internal combustion engines. My father was an engineer. An internal combustion engine is basically a heat Engine only 15%Of the energy from the gasoline gets to the rear wheels the rest is heat. Putting this in perspective for every $100 of gasoline you put in The tank you spend $85 to heat The air Sounds pretty dumb to me

F FFF the music i wanted to hear the car

Good video, *awful music*

This proves the limited nature of electric cars.

Wow not good. Strictly a go to store or a kid to school car. Not good at all.