GrantD
Member
So we got a great deal on our leaf. It's a used 2013 SL with only 24k miles and we got it for well below blue book. That said I kinda rushed into it without fully thinking about all the "work" it would be dealing with the range issues of this car.
My wife is going to have to really adapt to this. Apparently our car had on the setting where it only charges to 80% and today my wife did a lot of running around. She calls me while on the freeway and is screaming at me that there is only 6% charge left and she's 20 miles from home. I pulled up the plug share app and luckily she was close to a place to charge. So she pulls over and charges at level 2 for about an hour and is only up to 22% and heads home. She pulls into the driveway with everything shutting down, not even 1% according to the display! She kinda doesn't get it yet.
We have another car that can be used for the days when a lot of driving needs to be done, but I am kind of looking forward to trying to use this as much as possible and have fun with it. My wife still needs a little educating. We were expecting 100 miles on a charge to be what we could expect, but after reading on this forum I am thinking 80 is more realistic. Maybe not even that since we are usually carting the kids around, charging our phones, listening to the radio etc. I have read a few threads here and am learning a lot, look forward to reading on this forum a lot over the coming weeks.
My wife is going to have to really adapt to this. Apparently our car had on the setting where it only charges to 80% and today my wife did a lot of running around. She calls me while on the freeway and is screaming at me that there is only 6% charge left and she's 20 miles from home. I pulled up the plug share app and luckily she was close to a place to charge. So she pulls over and charges at level 2 for about an hour and is only up to 22% and heads home. She pulls into the driveway with everything shutting down, not even 1% according to the display! She kinda doesn't get it yet.
We have another car that can be used for the days when a lot of driving needs to be done, but I am kind of looking forward to trying to use this as much as possible and have fun with it. My wife still needs a little educating. We were expecting 100 miles on a charge to be what we could expect, but after reading on this forum I am thinking 80 is more realistic. Maybe not even that since we are usually carting the kids around, charging our phones, listening to the radio etc. I have read a few threads here and am learning a lot, look forward to reading on this forum a lot over the coming weeks.