After three Leafs I have some experience. Our first Leaf was a 2012 Lease. By 39k miles and end of lease It could barely do 50 miles. We did not buy that can.
We did however find a 2013 with 2,400 miles on the odometer for $14k. Nissan allowed us to pay off the car with a no interest loan. We are still driving that car. The guessometer is actually very accurate in predicting actual range. Back in 2015 we would see as much as 131 miles of range. Now in winter we are seeing mid 80's. Still getting 13 bars. The car has 55k on the clock. It has been from San Francisco to San Diego three times. First time it took 20 hours to LA. Lots of fast charger mistakes. No problems yet other than reduced range. We drive using the two ball method. During warm months we still see one mile of range per percent of charge. But it is hard to keep it up when driving into the wind. Our third Leaf was a 2016 30 kw. Total expenditure $13,550. It is so much more useful that my wife Bogart's it and has run up the odometer to over 50 k miles even though that car was bought new a year later. It will make the 90 mile journey to Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Santa Rosa and a little more to Salinas sometimes. This car still shows 114 to 130 miles of range on a full charge. It will make it to LA in 11 hours. Stops of Salinas, Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. So the bigger the battery the better. This car still has the original tires. If you drive normally you will not see these numbers on any Leaf. However I am certain the 40 and 60 kw Leafs will have much better range and battery life. I would not buy a 2011 or 2012 Leaf unless the battery was replaced or I got it nearly free. Looking forward I see my first broken part being the axel boots. Anybody think Armourall will extend their life? Lawrence Rhodes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200111/f2c3092c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
