- #NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE DRIVERS#
- #NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE FULL#
- #NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE WINDOWS#
#NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE FULL#
With the 240V home charger, you get a full charge in about 7 or 8 hours (basically overnight).
No one in their right mind would attempt a cross-country road trip in a Leaf and anyone serious about owning a Leaf will also be serious about getting a 240V charging station installed at home or at least making heavy use of public quick-charging stations. If I wanted to drive from my home in San Francisco to visit my friends in Atlanta, doing so in the Leaf would take about 28 days in 80-mile increments with 20-hour recharge breaks on 110V power. You'll want to rent a conventional gasoline vehicle for your annual road trip. However, during my testing the trip computer's range and my own estimates put the Leaf's range at about 80 miles. Shift down into the Eco drive mode and it will again jump to 115 miles. Turn off the climate control system and that range estimate will jump to 105 miles. Hop into a fully charged Leaf SL and push the start button and you'll be greeted with an estimated range of 95 miles. The EPA estimates the Leaf's cruising range on a full charge to be in the neighborhood of 73 miles.
#NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE WINDOWS#
There's also a similar pedestrian-warning sound that happens when driving forward at low speeds, but from the driver's seat, it's difficult to distinguish the high-pitched tone from the whine of the electric motor without really listening for it with the windows down. This sound is easily audible from outside of the vehicle, but you'll have to strain to hear it from the driver's seat. Shift the Leaf into reverse in a quiet parking garage and you'll be able to hear the "beep-beep-beep" of its pedestrian-warning sound in action.
#NISSAN LEAF VS CHEVY VOLT RANGE DRIVERS#
The Leaf's shifter annoyed me, but some drivers may like it just fine. However, the real story here is the 207 pound-feet of torque which is available from a dead stop and is responsible for the Leaf's low-end grunt. The 80 kW of output converts to about 107 horsepower. The 80 kW electric motor sits in about the same place as a small four-cylinder gasoline engine would and, save for the lack of vibration, noise, an intake, or exhaust, looks pretty much the same too. Pop the Leaf's hood and what you see won't look too much different from the engine room of a Nissan Versa. At about 45 mph, the engine starts to lose a bit of steam and the miles per hour pile on at a more relaxed rate, but at no point does the Leaf ever really feel gutless. Mat the pedal when the light turns green and this electric frog leaps forward with an effortless immediacy that you can only really get from an electric power train. Zero-to-60 estimates of about 8 seconds may make the Leaf seem slow on paper, but the torquey grunt that you get during a zero-to-45 mph drag on public roads paints a completely different picture.
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