The more I drive new Nissan products the more I believe that multiple generations of terrifying Altima drivers, the rapid propagation of rental spec Rogues Sport a few years ago, and the possibly well-earned poor reputation of the company’s dealers have all conspired to make people overlook the brand.
For example, did you know that the Nissan Leaf is a completely nice electric car that has over 300 miles of range and costs about $30,000 with just about every feature you could possibly want? That’s kind of a big deal and, yet, the car isn’t selling particularly well and hasn’t generated a ton of buzz.
Some of this is the larger thrust of the EV market and some of this is reputation. I also think that there’s a bigger issue in terms of what trims are available nationwide, because the Leaf is one of the better examples of a car that gets worse the more money you spend on it.
Why This Car Exists
Nissan deserves its share of credit for believing in electric cars before almost anyone else. Nissan also deserves its share of scorn for absolutely blowing it by not offering a better cooling system when the car launched. The early success of Tesla should have shown Nissan the way and, instead, the company absolutely biffed it.
This Nissan Leaf is a complete do-over. A rolling mea culpa. A “my bad you guys” with heated seats. Most of the questionable decisions of the first generation have been resolved, and the result is a surprisingly complete and attractive vehicle.
It is the only car under $30,000 (MSRP, it’s a little more with destination) that gets over 300 miles of range, putting it ahead of the slightly cheaper Chevy Bolt, and it has CarPlay and Android Auto as a standard option. Granted, we’re not getting the even-cheaper Leaf, but that probably would have had crap range, so the $30,000 one seems fine to me.
[Full disclosure: Nissan gave me a full battery and a week to play with the Leaf. – MH]
The Basics
Drivetrain: Single front-mounted permanent-magnet synchronous motor
Drive: Front-wheel drive
Output: 214 horsepower, 261 lb-ft of torque
Range: 303 miles (S+), 259 miles as tested
Base Price: $29,990 before $1,495 destination and handling
Price As-Tested: $41,835 (Platinum+)
How Does It Look?
My most millennial quality is probably that I quote the Dan Flashes sketch from I Think You Should Leave way too much, but just look at the wheels. They’re so complicated! There are three unique wheels for the three trims of the Nissan Leaf and all of them are good.
This is going to be a theme for the entire article, but the more money you pay for something on the Leaf somehow the less you get, and the wheels on the Platinum are the most conventional and least interesting of the bunch.
Look at the S+ wheels, they’re so much cooler:
Maybe I’m just a sucker for three-spokes. It’s possible. Isn’t it also possible, though, that I possess the most delicately honed sense of wheel design, and that my appreciation of these cheaper wheels speaks to their obvious superiority?
The rest of the car is nearly identical in every trim, offering an upright hatchback that, like the Model Y, has been sculpted by the air as much as by a designer. It somehow manages to look both like an electric car and also blend in with everything else.
Nissan’s overall design language is in transition, meaning there’s a bit of a mish-mash of everything right now across the range. The Leaf’s roofline is meant to evoke the Z and, yeah, I sort of see it on the C-D pillar and in the taillight design. It’s subtle, which is probably a good thing here.
Less subtle is Nissan’s “2-3” iconography, which reflects the fact that 2-3 sounds like “ni-san” in Japanese. Basically, you see two parallel rectangles and then three perpendicular ones (look at the taillights). A Leaf isn’t going to stand out next to a new Sentra or a Rogue, which is the point. Friends who saw it were like “It kind of looks like a Model Y.”
What’s It Like On The Inside?
Like most modern Nissans, the interior is straightforward with a few unique touches. If you look at the floor mats, you’ll see the 2-3 pattern repeated, for instance. The cabin feels quite roomy for a smaller (by modern standards) vehicle, which is enhanced by the dimming roof, which transitions from fully opaque to clear with a touch of a button.
My daughter and I geeked out over this feature, while my wife was completely uninterested in the technology. In Platinum+ trim, the Leaf also gets the company’s TailorFit seats, which is a synthetic material that’s supposed to feel like Nappa leather, just tougher.
Does it actually feel like Nappa leather? Maybe. Something felt slightly off about the seats, which might just be my unfamiliarity (MB.Tex, for instance, doesn’t bother me). Given that I’ve seen what children can do to a car’s interior, I’m open to a sturdier alternative.
The Platinum+ also has a feature I don’t love, which is the Bose speaker in the headrest. This is a new trend, and it makes phone calls in the car awkward, as the audio source of the person/s you’re talking to is now behind you.
Kinda strange! Less strange are the touch capacitive buttons built into the dashboard. I don’t love these, generally, even though Nissan’s version seems to work most of the time. The integration at an angle is a unique approach, and I found them to be, at the very least, superior to the absence of buttons entirely.
Any time I don’t have to go into a menu to turn on the heated seats, it feels like a luxury.
How Is It As An EV?
I’m going to speak generally about the Nissan Leaf and not this specific trim because the different trims are, for the moment, mechanically identical (the incoming Nismo Leaf is apparently sportier).
When thinking about an EV, the biggest concerns aren’t performance in the traditional sense of being fast. Efficiency is key, and in my testing, the Leaf got the promised 3.6 miles/kWh, which puts it on par with the improved Toyota/Lexus/Subaru vehicles and means it’s better than the BMW i4 eDrive 40 with the 18-inch wheels. 
The cheapest version, the S+, gets 303 miles of range, whereas the most expensive Platinum+ only gets 259 miles due to the 19-inch wheels. This is madness and gets into my larger theme of: Just buy the cheap one.
Credit to Nissan engineers for also putting in a J1772 port on the left front fender, which is probably where most people have their home AC charger set up, and the NACS port on the front right, which helps it reach the typically shorter cables of a Tesla Supercharger station.
The Leaf isn’t as fast as other EVs, and it’s FWD, which is rare in this country. It is competent, doesn’t torque steer too much, and is pleasingly refined over rougher roads. Because there’s no complex suspension at work here, the tradeoff is that it doesn’t feel EV zippy and leans a lot when pushed. Of course, the only Leafs that should be pushed are ones you buy used for $2,000 or the kinds that fall off trees in the fall.
If there’s one oversight, it’s that the vehicle doesn’t have true, full one-pedal driving.
Does It Do Some Super Annoying EV Things?
WHY? WHY????????
Sorry, I can’t help myself. Nissan has delivered on the cheaper EV that Tesla has ultimately failed to bring to market. Eventually, Ford will have an offering in this space, but we’re just going to have to wait a little longer for that.
Nissan had the opportunity to rid the market of one of the worst aspects of any electric car, which are the stupid motorized flush door handles. Not only does the Nissan Leaf have them, but they also broke during my test, forcing me to have to get a trim tool to pry it loose. Please, please, get rid of these.
The Leaf also is priced in a ridiculous way. The one I tested costs $41,835 delivered. For what? Weird speakers in the headrest? Larger wheels that make the range of the car worse? The only option worth paying for is the $300 battery heater and, maybe, the $170 CCS adapter.
Otherwise, the cheapest Leaf is truly the best Leaf, which costs $31,535 out the door. That’s almost exactly $10,000 cheaper to get–on paper at least–a much better car. In what universe is it worth it to spend more money to get a car that performs so much worse?
Why Isn’t This Thing More Popular?
I think the Nissan Leaf should sell better than it has (Leaf sales are down 57.1% year-over-year through the first half of the year). Some of this might be the introduction of a new generation. Some of the downturn is certainly due to the extinction of the federal tax credit. Since this car is built in England and Japan, tariffs might also be at play.
Other than the incorrect notion that people have because of the 1st-gen Leaf, I think one of the bigger issues is just trim availability. According to Edmunds, right now there aren’t that many for sale, and the ones that are for sale are more likely to be higher trim.
In fact, there are 119 listings for SV+, 98 listings for Platinum+, and just 48 for S+. At $40,000, there are way, way better EVs for sale for your hard-earned dollar. Just get a Model Y or an Ioniq 5 or whatever. At $30,000, your choices are limited to something used or a new Chevy Bolt. That’s it!
Nissan has built a good car, and now it just needs to offer the right ones for sale.
All photos author unless otherwise noted.
Thank you for the review! But to nitpick.. for so much discussion about the tail lights, a photo clearly showing them would have been nice..
Do you think they’d let you test the S+ as a follow up? I know you’re limited to what’s in the press fleet but I would love to see more reviews of base model or mid trim cars especially EVs
You forgot the best thing about this car.
It completely looks like a new Ferrari!
I’ve been waiting to see one with Ferrari badges on it. 😉
Whenever you talk to your Nissan PR reps, do they say anything like “we appreciate the positive things you’ve said about our car. But can you please stop mentioning all the negative stereotypes about our brand?”
Don’t get me wrong, those were earned. But I imagine they’re not terribly happy about it.
Also, HOLD THAT DOOR, HOLD THAT DOOR HOLD THAT DOOR.
So many modern vehicles are very close to appealing, but plagued with a few unforced errors. Some common ones in no particular order: no sunshade over the instrument cluster, electronic door handles, capacitive buttons, panoramic sunroofs, electronic door handles, big wheels, non-defeatable adaptive cruise, everything beeping and dinging all the time, electronic door handles, no apple car play, weak AC fans, etc…
Enlighten me as to why one would need to defeat adaptive cruise? In my experience adaptive only adds as long as it doesn’t disable cruise if it’s blinded.
I think non-defeatable means your only options are adaptive cruise and no cruise at all. Which is how my Ioniq 6 worked, and it was maddening.
Really?
The adaptive cruise control in our KIA is all positive.
And with a button on the steering wheel you can lower the following distance to full on BMW. Like I can’t see the street between my hood and the car in front of me close.
Seriously, if you wan’t to use non-adaptive cruise control to come up even closer , you would have to buy me dinner first.
So I only have one experience with driving a vehicle with adaptive cruise, and I thought I would love it, but kinda didn’t.
My issue was I found myself going slower than I wanted because I never felt the need to pass. Let me explain that better. When driving with regular cruise, I get a cue to pass another car because I can tell the distance between the two of us is getting closer. On the car with adaptive cruise, it slowed down so gently that I didn’t perceive the slowdown, and didn’t get close enough to realize the distance between us was decreasing. So every now and then I’d look at the speedo and wonder why we were going 65 instead of the 79 I wanted to be going.
My annoyance with adaptive cruise is kinda specific, but it is a common situation on the Dutch highways, with 3 or more lanes. I am on the left (fast) lane overtaking two cars on the middle lane who are overtaking a lorry or slower car on the right (slow) lane. The front car goes to the right lane after overtaking, the car behind speeds up again because he is on adaptive CC. I want to go the middle lane after having overtaking the middle lane car, only to see him closing in or passing me on the wrong side. Dutch traffic being crowded to very crowded this does not help for a logical flow of traffic.
Ja,
Maar zonder ACC zou die kerel in de middenste baan ook van snelheid veranderen. Zo zijn ze nu eenmaal.
Same here,
But the guy in the middle lane would probably change speed without ACC as well. That is just the way they are.
“Ja,
Maar zonder ACC zou die kerel in de middenste baan ook van snelheid veranderen. Zo zijn ze nu eenmaal”
Looks like your cat walked over your keyboard again. 😉
Two sollutions I use for this specific issue:
You probably don’t think about distances we travel in America. I might drive 10+ hours in one day, and 10% extra time makes a big difference. The key to the whole problem was I didn’t notice cars getting closer to me.
Even on a short journey (say my 25 minute drive to work) if I have to stop at one light at the end of the highway portion of my drive it adds 5 minutes to the commute.
Not all ACC systems are good…bad ACC + no standard cruise = no cruise at all.
Atleast for me the adaptive cruise hitting the brakes is terrifying. It’s fine I guess if you’re in 45mph rushhour or whatever. But in the mountains on a long drive I’ve had it tap the brakes in situations where tractor trailers have had to run out of their lane to avoid me. I had too many cars last decade throw up that panic brake warning from catching sun glare or the rise of the next hill. When I grab a rental at the airport I confirm I can disable it before I sign the contract. If it’s too much of a hassle I find another model. The automatic braking is bad enough
The absolute worst part are the constant warning beeps when the adas sensors are unable to deal with rain or fog or snow. The one thing I don’t need are constant chimes and flashing dashboard lights in low visibility situations. They all seem to default back to this pachinko parlor disco ball thing at the worst time when I need to concentrate on avoiding people who can’t drive without the aids and are having to deal with their own chimes and flashing lights. Sorry man it’s maddening.
I’m sure it’s better if it’s your own car and you are used to it and you are driving in a familiar setting but this junk on a different rental car that you are only in in an unfamiliar city for a few days is dangerous at best.
I’ll throw the lane centering on in Kansas if there aren’t a lot of trucks around but otherwise I need the cruise to maintain the desired speed until I take over and drive.
I have an example. Our car has the sensors for Adaptive cruise pretty low in the bumper, and over our 8-years of ownership they have occasionally been knocked out of alignment due to bumping large parking blocks. (I think newer cars have, smartly, moved the sensors up and out of dangers way).
When that occurs, we cannot use ACC until the sensors are realigned, and there is no option to use simple Speed Control, meaning we have no Cruise Control at all until it is fixed.
On a few occasions I have also had the system disable itself during a heavy snow storm, probably due to snow/ice buildup on the front of car where the sensors are.
So I too would love some way to switch between Adaptive Cruise Control and simple Speed Control in modern vehicles.
I find most new tech annoying and useless, pointless at best.
Yet I don’t have a problem with adaptive cruise control. Lots of highways around here are just full of car packs that speed up and slow down for know observable reason. Nothing ever opens up enough to allow for passing or any lane change. I’ve found adaptive cruise very useful in these circumstances where regular cruise could never be engaged.
I’m annoyed you have to bump up to Platinum for the roof rails. Why?
Same deal on the FWD Uncharted, but at least you can get it in the middle trim.
Agree 100%. I know the days of stand-along options are long-gone for most regular cars, but being able to just add an upgraded stereo, or roof-rails seems long gone. 🙁
Yeah, I miss options compared to trim levels and packages. Grumble grumble grumble
We agree again. 🙂
If it’s any consolation, the roof rails can probably be purchased from the parts department and are likely just a few torx bolts to install.
TBH… I’ve not driven the new Leaf yet… I should. *IF* and (when) it’s possible to find a base Leaf marked down to $25-6K, it would be tempting just to avoid the hassle of smog testing every couple of years.
Plus, it would be unfair of me to diss Nissan based only on their reputation/the rep of their buyers according to all those Youtube police dashcam videos featuring Altimas.
Nissan missed the marketing opportunity to make these there fun, whimsy car much like their Cube and Juke lines, but Electric. It should be in bold, fun colors with the marketing campaign bringing it back to nature and getting out. The paint colors shouldn’t be dull like a board room (Sea breeze blue is shockingly nice) and the trim level names so corporate with the S+, SV+, and Platinum+ (what the hell is the ‘+’ for exactly). This should have Japanese Maple and Bamboo as color names. Hell, even renaming the pearl white as Paper Birch
But instead, we have the marketing calling there FWD “Power to Pull” which is hilariously on the nose for enthusiasts wanting the “power to push” drivetrain. Lay into the quirkiness will go further than being an afterthought for EV shoppers.
I think the + is to specificy that it’s the big 75kWh battery version vs the non-plus with the smaller 52kWh battery that was originally planned but ultimately delayed/cancelled last minute for the US.
Ahh so like that bigger iPhone.
FWD is a huge miss on the Leaf. Any EV should be RWD or AWD due to the F/R weight bias. The last thing you want going up a snowy hill is a FWD EV with most of the weight on the rear wheels.
on weight bias: most of the weight is in the batteries the electric motors are not that heavy in the grand scheme of things. also it’s not a performance car and front wheel drive does provide some traction benefits in cold climates. Looking at pictures available of the Leaf’s drive unit it is actually very tall. putting it in the back would eat significantly into the cargo floor and give it one of those mail slit trunks kind of like a lucid air. Since this is a hatchback / utility focused vehicle nissan prioritized the hatchback and low cargo floor and i think that’s a good play.
What traction benefits does fwd provide in the snow?
Traditionally, in a nose heavy car, the engine over the drive wheels gave a bit of a traction boost in snow. Same goes for a rear engine car over rwd. In an EV, the weight is in the battery which is spread over the entire floor typically.
Fwd loses traction up hill as weight shifts rearward, and provides you with a front end that has to power, steer, and turn…which limits options in low friction situations. The only benefit I can surmise is the lack of power oversteer which is pretty well mitigated by an EVs typically superior traction control.
Exactly. EVs don’t have 60% or more of their weight on the front wheels like an ICE FWD.
Ahh so what they need is FWD with RWS. Problem solved. It has a 56/44 distribution, the same as a GR86.
All my later vehicles had good F/R weight bias and FWD. As in close to 50:50. (Prius, eNiro, Cooper SE).
They all handle nice in low traction conditions because:
Try winter tires for a change.
All RWD vehicles I pass in wintertime are either:
I have winter tires on my 2017 Bolt EV. It sucks in the snow because even empty it only has 55% of the weight on the front axle. Put some people in the car and try to drive uphill to a ski area and it has less than 50% of the weight on the drive axle.
56/44% F/R weight distribution according to NIssan’s published spec sheet. Same as a Camry hybrid.
Which means it who’ll have less than 50% of the weight on the front wheel climbing a hill with passengers.
It should be RWD.
Then so should everything FWD. Seems more a FWD-anything problem than a Nissan Leaf-specific problem.
If you really want to get to the slopes, AWD is far better than either.
A Camry Hybrid isn’t a great comparison for ICE as it has a HV battery in the back. A Corolla GR has 60% of the weight on the front axle.
FWD is a problem in pretty much everything. My Prius also had trouble climbing hills and sometime I had to back up them.
RWD works fine in snow
Counterpoint: Having the motors drive the front wheels allows them to contribute more to braking. That puts more energy back in to the battery instead of throwing it away.
If the driver is routinely doing heavy breaking that exceeds the regen capacity of the rear motors. RWD EVs really haven’t suffered for efficiency ratings.
Even so that’s how the physics work. Even for a 50:50 weight distribution 80%+ of the braking force is on the front wheels.
Again, depending on the deceleration rate. In normal driving 100% of braking can be handled by the rear.
In normal driving the driver of a modern car would be hard pressed to tell which set of wheels are the driven wheels anyway.
If you don’t like FWD in an EV then don’t buy a FWD EV. There are plenty of RWD/AWD options for you to choose from. A quick search on the EPA’s website says the model years of 2021-2026 offered 95 FWD options, 212 RWD options and 922 AWD options for you to choose from.
On dry pavement you are right. In the snow FWD is a big disadvantage.
This is just a miss by Nissan. EVs allow automakers the freedom to return to the better driving dynamics of RWD but Nissan chose to put out an inferior product. You are correct that there are others (like Hyundai / Kia) that offer RWD EVs.
Well you know more about snow than I do. We don’t get snow. We do (rarely) get ice and that’s a problem but primarily because it’s such an abnormal case and everyone rides on either summer or all season tires.
Given the diminutive size of the motors I think in a perfect world all EVs would be AWD.
I grew up in Michigan. When I was 15 and had my permit my dad would take me to empty parking lots in the early morning and have me practice modulating brakes (before ABS), recovering from skids, and steering with the throttle. Back then RWD was the default for the vast majority of cars and 4WD was for trucks and required getting out and locking hubs. RWD just feels natural to me and I’ve always disliked the loss of steering control that comes with FWD when the tires spin. (Rain or Snow)
I also learned on RWD cars (with stick shifts). My TR3, with its all iron tractor engine had a HUGE weight bias to the front and lots of torque so despite having only 100 hp losing traction even in ideal conditions was quite easy in that car. The 155/15 VW bug tires probably didn’t help. My Fiat X1/9 OTOH had much more weight to the rear and despite having all that weight on the driven wheels was easier to suddenly find pointing the wrong way. Good times.
In the mid 80’s we started buying FWD cars. The torque steer was noticeable but only under full throttle. Wheel spin wasn’t much of an issue.
One of the vanishingly few times I ever really cared about which wheels were driven came with my Jeep XJ. I was exiting a parking structure in a heavy El Nino downpour onto a descending roadway filled with cars piloted by jerks who were gonna drive fast, rain or shine. My rear wheels were in the rain filled gutter. When a gap presented itself and I tried to move and my wheels just spun which reminded me I was in 2WD and that my SelecTrak transfer case had AWD. So I pulled the lever and the now driven front wheels got me out of that rut. There have been other times I’ve used 4WD/AWD but those were well off pavement. Its also worth mentioning I was able to go on those same deeply rutted, scree covered remote dirt roads with my FWD cars, a mid 80’s Toyota Corolla, a slightly older VW Scirocco and 3rd gen Dodge Voyager, all very pavement oriented vehicles. The higher clearance of the Jeep helped more than which wheels were driven.
using the old Tesla CHAdeMO to NACS adapter is amusing to see in 2026.
I’ll be honest, I don’t much care for any of the wheel choices on the Leaf. While the styling on the car looks better than the previous generations of the Leaf, it somehow pulls off the appearance being both under-styled and over-styled, but overall it is pretty forgettable.
Friend of mine who needed a car bought a gently used newer Leaf and he loves it. It’s a great car.
The cheap one is the only one for sure . It already feels like it’s trying to be something it’s not. The gen 2 was an honest little car. People were getting then dirt cheap because of incentives in many states under $20k some around $15k. I know of at least one guy that was able to stack incentives and get one for $10k.
Gen 3 is maybe marked down to around $28k then maybe your state has some incentives. You could maybe get around $22k if you are lucky. Gen 3 is certainly a better battery along with actual thermal management. It feels like it’s trying to be premium but it’s not. That’s where the bolt really shines its honest on what it is. And you can find them for $23k $24k if you can get a state incentive you are likey around $20k or sub $20k in some states. Also the leaf is in bloated cuv territory now. Its basically an ayria just more round but no awd option.
If the bolt didn’t exist the leaf would be an ok deal but it does so I think it’s in a sort of awkward area. For a few $k more you can get a Toyota or Subaru or Kia or Hyundai. If you were just looking at basic pricing. $30k for a leaf to $35k for an ionic 5 with their new reduced pricing. So many people would buy the ionic 5. Then you throw in the rest of Kia Hyundai line the bolt the other gms. With the to Toyota and Subarus. It just sort of gets lost in the middle. It’s not cheap enough and it’s not premium enough. Plus leaf baggage good and bad. Putting it right back in the middle.
There’s all of (5) Leaves within 75 miles of here, they’re all SVs or Platinums. And they’re all freaking white.
I’m going to assume that’s why I’ve only seen one in person so far.
White is a great color for a car. Cooler in the summer sunshine.
Every third car seems to be white, and what isn’t white is gray. I have no love for white cars.
I can understand the practicality for places that get unrelenting sun, but there’s little excuse for white cars in the Northeast. It’s Thursday morning, and I haven’t seen the sun since Sunday.
I really don’t care what color other people’s cars are.
I do care that here in the PNW the summer is our dry season and most days are sunny and cloud free.
the problem is that nobody is aware of the range change, I happened across it by accident and was surprised that it only became a thing in 2026. I still am not sure if the battery is cooled in some way other than air to air, and that reputation of the Leaf Battery being old school in both cooling and chemistry still persists in many minds. the feeling is of course that the range will halve itself by 5 years like the OG’s.
That being said, I think I would consider one of the 2026 units in January when they have sat on a lot for 300+ days and the 12V battery is dead and causing some issues to pop up on a test drive. maybe get one for 15K and then just put in a new 12V.
The ev people and sites covered it pretty regularly. But I don’t think Nissan did much to get it out to the general pubic. Just like the ayria just sort of appeared. I don’t know that many of the ev sites even did anything about it. It just sort of appeared with cheap leases and the ride share drivers driving them.
It’s basically a slightly upgraded ayria it has active thermal management for the battery it also has a heat pump standard.
They also finally got rid of the CHAdeMO connector.
I can’t help but think that the Anony-blob styling is not helping. It’s not distinctive and doesn’t stand out much on the road.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for sure. I think its lack of krinkle kut body panels is exactly what the world needs more of.
I’m not calling it ugly, just a bit invisible. The profile is so similar to the ubiquitous Model Y that many people may think it is one. Harder to sell a car if it isn’t noticed through marketing or on the street.
I think the cuv blob is also a problem especially as it doesn’t offer awd. People seem to want that in a cuv.
If they had the guts to make those wheels all-silver so we could see them, and offer more good colors (and how about a white roof instead of just solid color or black roof) it would help a lot.
Modern-day Nissan dealers remind me of Hyundai dealers in the 1990s. A haven for the credit-challenged who wish to purchase a new car nonetheless. It’s hard to imagine that the buying experience for any of the upmarket Nissan models is a pleasant experience.
Is it an incorrect notion when it’s based on facts and evidence?
I think it’s hideous.
In the sheer “we tried not to offend anyone, so it looks awful”
I predict it’ll look dated quickly.
So…. is the battery cooling fixed? I haven’t kept up with the change of seasons.
Yes! It’s liquid cooled.
Well, I didn’t know those have the bad door handles. That is seriously a deal killer for me.
I never understood why car dealers will actively add a part to a car that makes it worse and more expensive but balk at replacing it with a better experience and cheaper price.
I think they might also not be as popular is the used EV market currently around 30k can get you much more car with more options and not many miles on them.
The Nissan Leaf is a car that I would buy if the price was right. And if the one I bought had the dumb oversized wheels, I would just swap them out with the base model wheels when it came time to get a new set of tires.
That’s what I did with my Honda Fit Sport.
Edit: Did you know the new Mitsubishi Eclipse Sportback is just a rebadged Leaf?
Man… I can just imagine if I could go back to the year 2012 and tell people that the Eclipse coupe/convertible they knew (which was coming to an end that year) would eventually become a rebadged Nissan Leaf, they would have called me crazy… or worse.
I wonder if the Mitsuleafi will sell at a discount to the real thing. They’re just about the only brand with less cachet than Nissan
In my eyes: Mitsubishi has a far better reputation for quality than Nissan.
But it’s like saying that any other brand is better than Stellantis.
It’s not really hard to do.
Ironically their reliability reputation really took a hit with the Jatco CVTs that they share w/Nissan.
I think the real value with the Mitsubishi might be the warranty. Nothing has been said but they are likey to have a longer warranty then Nissan. But you have to deal with a Mitsubishi dealer to do it. They are somehow worse then Nissan dealers. Plus the Nissan dealers that move a lot of bev treat it different. Not much nonsense.
But aren’t they already calling you worse? LOL
The MAGA crowd certainly is… LOL
“…the dimming roof, which transitions from fully opaque to clear with a touch of a button.”
I wonder what the projected lifespan for that is.
Like most EV stuff for the life of the parts.
Been seeing a ton of these lately in my small town. Must be a lot of incentives on the hood. I think the nearest Nissan dealer is 60 miles away.
Also, this thing is made in England?! Pretty sure they have the most favorable tariff deal of any country.
So your saying that Nissan dealers are struggling to turn over the new Leaf?
If you don’t win COTD for this I may cry.
I beLeaf they are trying very hard to do that!
This is the best comment. Everyone else can Leaf now.
They should make like a tree and get out of here.
Damn, got’em.
People just can’t see the leafs thru the Forrestors