Holy Smoke! EPA Rates Nissan Leaf At 106 MPG Highway, 92 MPG City!

Decent Mileage, too bad the EPA also rated the Leaf at 73 miles per charge... it kinda sucks if you're risking pushing your car home if you travel any more than 35 miles away from home a day. I wonder what the miles per charge will be after 5-10 years of use?

Two federal agencies say they know how far the new Nissan Leaf will go on a fully charged battery. They just don’t agree. In the meantime, Nissan has taken refundable deposits on the first 20,000 Leafs, no matter what the sticker says.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/the-case-of-the-nissan-leafs-unexpected-sticker/?ref=automobiles

"Holy smoke" indeed. Those ratings are 31% of what Nissan was advertising on the internet when they announced the car. And the distance per charge is 73% of what they said. Nissan was right about one thing though -- it will "only" take 7 hours to charge a Leaf on a 240 volt outlet that no one has at home. Double that on a standard outlet. So to sum up, it's the perfect car if you never need to drive more than 73 miles in a day, ever, and you have 7-14 hours per day to charge the car. Gee, sounds fantastic, where do I sign?

Remember all the hoopla that went on when GM canned the EV1? The EV1 had a range of about 55-75 miles per charge and those that leased the vehicle, generally praised it. As much as I love just about any other car more than the Leaf, it will probably sell well in its designated market.

Before you buy one get AAA and make sure you are not more than 5 miles away from your home when the battery runs out since only 5 miles is free.I will take the Volt with no 240v charger needed.

Good suggestion. AAA Plus is 100 miles I believe.

Where are the Volt haters?

EV cars... duh!

That's a very good question, UAW. And am I the only one that noticed that the plug-in Prius just went on sale in Japan for almost 40 large? I wonder how much it will cost when it gets to the US. I'm sure it will likely be subsidised, but then I'm sure nobody will mind because as long as it's not GM that's pricing it and subsidising it everything is okay...<psheww> Volt for my money.

I suspect the EPA ratings are low, as usual. Already one blogger has driven the Leaf to 116 miles on a single charge.

Those with this "Range Fear" shouldn't even be looking at a Leaf. Stick with your gas powered cars if you're that worried about how far you can drive. For myself, I drive an average of 30 miles per day. That to and from work, and out for food or groceries. In my case, the Leaf is a perfect car. And maybe i'm weird, but I have a normal house that actually does have 220V outlets. Crazy huh?

and you never drive to a town more than 37 miles away? Hope not, because after that half hour drive you'd have to turn around and make the half hour drive home or you won't make it back. It's a car for hermits and agorophobes, people who never leave home.

"I suspect the EPA ratings are low, as usual. Already one blogger has driven the Leaf to 116 miles on a single charge. "

At 25 mph in a tail wind with the radio off and no a/c.

any car you can only drive for an hour a day before it needs to sit on a charger for 14 hours is completely pointless to 99.99999% of the population.

It is a Versa with a battery.I just passed one driving to work today.What a boring car made even uglier as a leaf.Those who complain about the Volt getting MTCOTY and CADCOTY should give their own suggestions.Someone was complaining it is too expensive yet they did not complain about the MTTOTY (Porche Cayene) which is twice as expensive.

The Volt is very relevant to this discussion dimwit. It's one of three vehicles that will be duking it out within the next 12 months. Very few people will be able to buy all 3 so some will prefer one over the others. Now if I have to explain that to you, sportsbike80, then you really need to go back to the sandbox and leave real car talk to the adults.