Recent content by TexasLeaf

I have had my Niro EV for a little over a year and I thought I would post an update. I don't regret trading my 2018 Leaf for the 2019 Niro EV in the slightest. I have had my Niro EV for about as long as I had my Leaf, at the end I was comping at the bit to get rid of the Leaf but I really have...

I generally leave the regen at the highest setting so I can one-pedal drive. Although the highest regen is pretty strong, the Niro EV won't come to a complete stop. You have to pull in the left paddle to get the car to come to a complete stop but at least that means that the brakes are not...

The Niro EV has a fairly flat charging curve between10% and 60%. With a 100+ kW charger and a warm battery, the charging jumps up to 70+ kW at about 10% and drops off after 60%. The trip I mentioned in my post actually was a round trip from Texas to Colorado and lasted several days with two...

As many of you are aware, I traded in my 2018 Leaf in for a 2019 Niro EV. I thought I might share with you one day in the life of my Niro EV. Last December I traveled by interstate from Socorro, NM to Fort Worth, TX in one day. The total distance was 808 miles and I traveled the speed limit...

Typical Tesla Troll rhetoric. Neither my Leaf SL nor my Niro EV EX Premium were econoboxes, they were both top of the line; power everything, leather seats and level 2 autonomous systems (something many Teslas don't have). The Niro EV is the fastest production Kia and it has faster 0 to 60 mph...

So you are a Tesla Troll. The price you paid for Supercharging is irrelevant considering the high price you paid for the Tesla subsidized the Superchargers and the charging. If you paid anything at all for Supercharging you paid too much considering a lot of Tesla owners get their Supercharging...

I don’t know that you can justify adding up costs of the two cars, after all the Leaf was 1-1/2 years old and the Niro is brand new. If you look at the cost per mile, the money I spent on the Leaf was pretty reasonable. And I think the Niro is a keeper, so by the the time I’m ready to part with...

I had the2018 Leaf with ProPilot for 18 months. I paid $4,000 down and paid 17 lease payments at $350 each month. I had to cover a $705.55 difference between the trade-in and the residual payoff but I also received a $2,500 rebate from the State of Texas. So my total out of pocket for 18...

I bought a 2019 Niro EV EX Premium with the EX Premium Launch Edition option. Additional options included carpeted floor mats, cargo net and mud guards. Total MSRP including freight and handling was $46,295. I paid $4,000 down that covered tax and license, the first lease payment and the...

I got $1200 off of MSRP from the dealer, I got a $9100 credit on a 36 month lease from Kia and I got a 0.00199 money factor on the lease.

Here is a link to the Niro EV charging curve, https://support.fastned.nl/hc/nl/articles/360007699174-Laden-met-een-Kia-Niro-EV and here is a link to the Bolt EV charging curve, https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/dc-fast-charging-performance.14002/. Not only does the Niro EV have a faster peak...

Well, I couldn't take it any more :evil:. After having my 2018 Leaf SL with ProPilot for a little over a year, I traded it in on a 2019 Niro EV EX Premium with the Launch Edition package :D. My trip in the Leaf last December from Texas to Colorado back is what really drove me over the edge...

I have not read through the latest posts so maybe you figured this out already. You have to look at the VIN. A “B” in the fourth character of VIN indicates the car you are looking at is a Leaf Plus.

No, that’s not what I meant at all. I read an article on an interview with a Leaf designer. The designer said the Leaf Plus battery is wired differently so that the wiring generates less resistance and only creates a third of the waste heat that the 40 kWh battery generates. I’m still...

I’m in the same boat you and I would really like the extra range and better battery temperature management of the Leaf Plus. But be careful trying to get a Leaf Plus right now, I have already tried a couple of times and I was really turned off by the lease money factor Nissan is asking for the...