That gets you commuting to work and driving around your city, for which a Nissan Leaf is already perfectly adequate. It doesn't get you long-distance road trips

That gets you commuting to work and driving around your city, for which a Nissan Leaf is already perfectly adequate. It doesn't get you long-distance road trips. Not sure if this is still planned, but at one point the intention was to have automated stations that would pull off your battery and replace it with a freshly-charged one, which should take about the same time as a gas station stop.