Recent content by gartaylor

Hey everybody! Yes, I'm a newbie to the Forum, but my 2001 Leaf is #000774. We are now getting under 50 miles per charge, most times, using ECO 100%, building trees like crazy, using hypermiling skills, with 1 person and no load, and virtually no elevation. Yes, it's Winter (35-50 degrees) in...

Thanks Nissan! Too bad all that "variable" information wasn't available when we reserved our car on 4-20-10. All your consumers went by was Nissans "100 mile range". Nissan never said it was a 65-138 mile range until just recently. The sticker shows a huge 99, but when we picked up the car we...

altitude change is minimal (and all trips roundtrip) and we did get the software update. Our Leaf is one of the 1st thousand. My apologies - I'm sure all users on the Nissan Leaf forum are genuine and just trying to be helpful. Maybe we'll just try harder and use ECO mode and turn off the...

sorry for the delay, too busy at work. Can't believe some of the posted over close or over 100 miles per charge. We drive the Leaf like little old ladies... BUT - we aren't counting ECO mode or climate control OFF as a legit way to get to Nissans 100 miles per charge. Anyway - we are finding...

well, nice to know Nissan IS listening! And that Nissan still upholds their "100 mile range" claim. Dealership said battery was fine & that although we achieved only a 67 mile range average in 27 trips - everythings hunky dory. We live close to Portland and keep the car in the garage. We're...

just dropped off my Leaf for 1st 6 month maintenance. I charted the last 27 trips - and we only averaged 67 miles per charge in city driving. These were all roundtrips, so minor elevation changes shouldn't matter. Everything I read before we bought said Nissan was confident about the 100 mile...