Boomer23
Well-known member
I think that with all the negativity and disappointment surrounding pack capacity loss in AZ and TX, and the resulting focus on range and Gids, we run the risk of our active threads being too negative. It's time for a thread about what we love about our cars. Threads about our favorite things about our LEAFs were started a year ago when our cars were new and novel to us. But I think that readers need to know that despite recent events, many of us still love our LEAFs.
We are a very influential forum and we have to realize that we have an impact on buying decisions. I'm concerned that we have the potential to fuel a self-fulfilling prophecy of further reduced popularity of the LEAF and other EVs. I'm not talking about stifling free speech or artificially creating good news, and I applaud the way the AZ LEAFers banded together to effect change with Nissan. I'd just like to see a current discussion about why some of us are still happy about our choice.
Personally, though I've seen a 13% drop in range in the first 15 months, I still love my LEAF. I still get 70 to 75 miles from a full charge if I drive at my average 4 mi/kWh. Like most drivers, my usual daily driving averages 28 to 38 miles and I rarely drive over 50 miles a day, so I don't have range issues. Nothing else about our LEAF has changed. It is still rock solid reliable. It has needed no repairs and little maintenance over its 15,000 mile, 15 month life. It is just as economical, in fact more so since I learned to drive it more efficiently, as the day I drove it home. I get to drive the first affordable family EV of this generation, one that is roomy and flexible enough to be our family's primary car, from Nissan, the first company with the guts to build an affordable BEV for widespread sale around the world. I get to drive electrically, with zero fuel cost and very low emissions by combining my home's existing solar panels with TOU rates, and I get to ignore gas prices and gas shortages when they occur. I get the fun of that torquey motor, surprising ICE cars at traffic lights and quietly humming along without the noise of an ICE drowning out conversation. I love the technical connection I get from this car. And it's the car that's here now that lets me drive all of my miles electrically, not just most of them like a PHEV would.
What are your thoughts? Yes, I'm leasing, and I realize that is different from ownership at this particular time. But I know that many of you bought your LEAFs with long term ownership in mind, and that you are still happy that you did. This is the thread where it's okay to talk about why you like your LEAF without feeling like you are arguing with our brothers in the warmer regions.
And whistle blower lady, you have your own thread, please leave this one alone.
We are a very influential forum and we have to realize that we have an impact on buying decisions. I'm concerned that we have the potential to fuel a self-fulfilling prophecy of further reduced popularity of the LEAF and other EVs. I'm not talking about stifling free speech or artificially creating good news, and I applaud the way the AZ LEAFers banded together to effect change with Nissan. I'd just like to see a current discussion about why some of us are still happy about our choice.
Personally, though I've seen a 13% drop in range in the first 15 months, I still love my LEAF. I still get 70 to 75 miles from a full charge if I drive at my average 4 mi/kWh. Like most drivers, my usual daily driving averages 28 to 38 miles and I rarely drive over 50 miles a day, so I don't have range issues. Nothing else about our LEAF has changed. It is still rock solid reliable. It has needed no repairs and little maintenance over its 15,000 mile, 15 month life. It is just as economical, in fact more so since I learned to drive it more efficiently, as the day I drove it home. I get to drive the first affordable family EV of this generation, one that is roomy and flexible enough to be our family's primary car, from Nissan, the first company with the guts to build an affordable BEV for widespread sale around the world. I get to drive electrically, with zero fuel cost and very low emissions by combining my home's existing solar panels with TOU rates, and I get to ignore gas prices and gas shortages when they occur. I get the fun of that torquey motor, surprising ICE cars at traffic lights and quietly humming along without the noise of an ICE drowning out conversation. I love the technical connection I get from this car. And it's the car that's here now that lets me drive all of my miles electrically, not just most of them like a PHEV would.
What are your thoughts? Yes, I'm leasing, and I realize that is different from ownership at this particular time. But I know that many of you bought your LEAFs with long term ownership in mind, and that you are still happy that you did. This is the thread where it's okay to talk about why you like your LEAF without feeling like you are arguing with our brothers in the warmer regions.
And whistle blower lady, you have your own thread, please leave this one alone.