Nine Things I Learned Driving a Nissan Leaf for 4 weeks
To find out if I could successfully adapt to the plug-in lifestyle I spend four weeks Living with a Nissan Leaf writes Geraldine Herbert and discovered quite a bit along the way 1) Charging is easier than you might think. Instantly living with a Leaf adds a new dimension to my evening – plugging in my Leaf. It takes over night to charge but by the end of week the Nissan Leaf and I are in a nice little routine. 2) The range on many...
Living with a Leaf – Week 3
Its week three of driving an electric car and its time to venture a little further afield writes Geraldine Herbert According to Nissan you can do 250 kms between charge but my own experience up to now had been quite different if you use the heated seats and air con pretty much like you normally would it depletes rapidly. Battery kilometres, it seems are significantly shorter than real kilometres. Many mornings setting off on what is...
Living with a Leaf – Week 2
Its week two of driving an electric car and its proving to be a super family runabout writes Geraldine Herbert Its week two with the Leaf and the range anxiety is beginning to lessen and charging the car nightly has become part of the usual routine, in fact the Leaf is proving a super family runabout. I discovered very quickly that the key to extending the range is simply not to drive the Leaf like a conventional car and while this is...
Living with a Leaf – Week 1
In an effort to find out what it’s really like to live with an electric car I am going to be doing just that for the next four weeks– Living with a Leaf We’ve had our new Nissan Leaf for a week now, our new ecar home charge point has been installed and we’re ready to covert to the EV revolution. This year 371 electric cars have been sold in Ireland, a figure down almost 20 per cent on the year despite an increasing choice...
