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Oh yeah, The leaf was scarey on the freeway. It would burn so much battery and was pretty loud. I try to keep it below 60MPH in which things get uncomfortable.
by chemmail 6y ago
Oh yeah, The leaf was scarey on the freeway. It would burn so much battery and was pretty loud. I try to keep it below 60MPH in which things get uncomfortable. In the city it was very compliant and very efficient. I could go through two weeks without charging my now half degraded battery.
In the Tesla it loves going to about 70mph. After that you start getting wind noise.
Two very different animals. But both great cars. Never going back to ICE.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoI've never ridden in a Leaf or other compact electric but is it really worse than the 2002 Tauruses and 1999 Grand Caravans (or 2019 Mitsubishi Mirage for that matter) that people seem to have no problem keeping up with traffic in? I can see it being worse than whatever people who are buying leafs are trading in but I can't see it being that bad overall.
- toast0 6y agoThe issue is not you can't keep up with traffic, it's if you do keep up with traffic, you use your stored energy very fast. I was commuting with a plug in hybrid and it was very similar. If traffic was bad, I could make it nearly home on nearly all electric, but if traffic was light, the battery would be drained even if it was running in normal hybrid mode. Not a problem for me, the gas engine works fine, but it would be an issue for a leaf.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoSo it's a range/performance issue, not an NVH issue, correct?
- toast0 6y agoYes, the issue is range reduction primarily. Noise may be a secondary issue, but almost all vehicles come with a factory radio ;)