Hello!
I have set my eyes on the leaf since about a week but I am still hesitating on buying it. It would be my first vehicule and I want to be sure to buy something that suits me, but buying an EV is quite important to me and I proactively want to be part of the movement. I have been researching a lot but I would still need to talk to actual persons and ask particular questions so I was very pleased to find this website.
Please note that I will be using $CAN instead of $US, celcius instead of fahrenheit and kilometers instead of miles since I live in Québec, hopefully some people here are familiar with those units. (I also speak french as my mother tongue so my english is very limited!)
-I have been struggling to choose whether I should buy an older car like a 2014 or 2015, or go for the 16. My needs of transportation per weekdays are something like 20-25 kilometers, excluding occasional errants and possible traffic jams. Sometimes I would need to go a little further on weekends, like at my mother's place who lives at 65 kilometers away using highways. Would it be possible to do that much driving with one charge? What about long roadtrips?
-I like fast driving to a resonable extend, does that reduce the range very significantly?
- I live very near Montréal where the weather can go from -30c to 30c, and I know this can affect the battery. How much variation am I to expect? How does the weather affect the range? Is this something that would put you off the idea of buying the Leaf?
-Something I have been seeing as a potential problem is that I currently live in an appartment where I do not have access to a charge (that I would possibly have to buy and have installed which wouldn't be a good investment anyway), would that be a very big nuisance considering there are several public charging points in my area? What are your opinion and experience on the subject?
-I also do not know much about the variations between the different models (S, SV, SL). If you take my current situation into account (Extreme weather changes, relatively small range need), what do you think would be the best choice? I like nice speakers and loud music, is the sound system on lower end models good enough?
Thank you so much to anyone willing to help. See you around!
I have set my eyes on the leaf since about a week but I am still hesitating on buying it. It would be my first vehicule and I want to be sure to buy something that suits me, but buying an EV is quite important to me and I proactively want to be part of the movement. I have been researching a lot but I would still need to talk to actual persons and ask particular questions so I was very pleased to find this website.
Please note that I will be using $CAN instead of $US, celcius instead of fahrenheit and kilometers instead of miles since I live in Québec, hopefully some people here are familiar with those units. (I also speak french as my mother tongue so my english is very limited!)
-I have been struggling to choose whether I should buy an older car like a 2014 or 2015, or go for the 16. My needs of transportation per weekdays are something like 20-25 kilometers, excluding occasional errants and possible traffic jams. Sometimes I would need to go a little further on weekends, like at my mother's place who lives at 65 kilometers away using highways. Would it be possible to do that much driving with one charge? What about long roadtrips?
-I like fast driving to a resonable extend, does that reduce the range very significantly?
- I live very near Montréal where the weather can go from -30c to 30c, and I know this can affect the battery. How much variation am I to expect? How does the weather affect the range? Is this something that would put you off the idea of buying the Leaf?
-Something I have been seeing as a potential problem is that I currently live in an appartment where I do not have access to a charge (that I would possibly have to buy and have installed which wouldn't be a good investment anyway), would that be a very big nuisance considering there are several public charging points in my area? What are your opinion and experience on the subject?
-I also do not know much about the variations between the different models (S, SV, SL). If you take my current situation into account (Extreme weather changes, relatively small range need), what do you think would be the best choice? I like nice speakers and loud music, is the sound system on lower end models good enough?
Thank you so much to anyone willing to help. See you around!