I’ve found a 2023 leaf for some $10k, and with selling my ICE car, which is starting to cost more to maintain than it’s worth, it’ll realistically only cost me about $5k, maybe less. It’s got 33k miles on it, or about 10k/yr which is kinda high-average, but meh. The range in it is far enough to go all the places I’d realistically be going. (If not for making regular trips over 100 miles I’d get one of the ultra-cheap 2015 era EVs that can handle 60-80 miles…)
I probably want it even tho I’ve never test driven one. I’d obviously still do that but I think I kinda want it anyway. This one is located about 3 hours away, but it sounds like they may do inter-dealership trades up to this area, so maybe not a concern.
So what do I need to know? Can the tracking modem be disconnected? Do the batteries fail a lot? Does this model have a ton of quirks? Is it just cheap because people don’t want used EVs? Is this a horrible idea?
My 2018 Nissan Leaf tells you how long it’ll take to charge to 80%, to the nearest 30 mins. I use that all the time to set the charge timer.
Yes, ours does that too. My point is that you have futz around with the timer each time instead of just setting it to the nearest increment of 10% and getting on with things.
True.
The leaf was one of the first mass market and usable EVs, and iirc, originally they had or planned a setting that let you charge to 80% by default and 100% as an option, which is of course exactly what you want, but some regulator or other decided that they would only be allowed to quote 80% range if that were the default, so to satisfy some pen pusher, it’s quite deliberately inconvenient. Of course once the trail had been blazed everyone knows what the deal is so newer cars can have more convenient settings.