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Here's how far the Leaf goes if you drive gently! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwTuk1kxc20&t=852s
I emptied the battery of my 2013 Leaf, twice, and I was able to push the car, both times. You were only joking, right?
That's crazy… from 60 miles to 5 miles ??
I smell burning, go faster . Lol and beep
Very interesting
the wipers and lights on don't do a thing. they run on the small 12v battery not the big one.
The speedo reading only shows a maximum 99mph read out.
and it was better to connect a single-phase generator and charge the car in an hour so that it would drive up to the charging station.
Nissan leaf trying to be altima
Wow and suppose those cars will save the planet? At what cost? Of don't use those at winter and don't driving at highways? Great job at do those test under real conditions and not at lab ones
Legend has it that the nissan leaf is still in Millbrook
The end of this clip reminds me why I wish there were more electric cars like the VW e-UP as that has a physical handbrake
Shocking 20 mile range
How do ye think a 21 mile range is good?
In my country the national highway speed limit is 87mph or 140kph and usually most of the cars travel at +/-10kph of that. It's absolutely normal to see cars traveling calmly at 100mph or 160kph. The good thing about turbocharged engines – they love cold air. During the holidays i drove 650km (90% highway driving and 10% combined) at an average speed of ~120km/h with full boot of luggage, 3 people, AC at 22.5°C, heated seats and at 3°C ambient temperature on single 70L tank of petrol. Modern internal combustion engine you say.. no… 2003 Audi A6 Avant with 2.7L twinturbo V6. And when the tank was empty, it was refilled and paid for in under 3 minutes. This should be the baseline for every EV to beat. If it's not more practical than a 20 yo relic, it shouldn't be on the market.
More of this please, absolutely brilliant. 🙌
Where the hell was Turtle mode ?
Funny segment! But a 66 mile range for a 5 or 6 year old car, and 21 to 35 miles at speed… FAAAAARK!!! Definitely only a city car, and not for our highways. I'm in Australia, and a 2016 30,000km Nissan Leaf is selling second-hand for some A$28,000 (roughly 15,000 pounds). So, between the exorbitant cost of electric cars over here, and their [still] limited range, it's not a great surprise why the uptake of EVs in Oz hasn't been setting any records. Our biggest (Capital) cities are approximately 800 to 1,000km apart, so that even at a legal 110km/h (67mph) we'd be lucky to get an hour out of our driveways before we had to recharge a Leaf. 😳😬
that's hilariously bad, its like fitting a gas powered car with a fuel tank from a moped, except with this thing you can't refill in 5 minutes or carry jerrycans with you, you run out you're screwed
Is it now worth buying a Nissan leaf electric car?
Whoever's idea it was to put these two together. Well played.
They should of made one of the wheels on electric cars a Generator constantly charging the battery.Unless someone is working on that Idea 💡💡💡💡💡😂
Mate….hills…hills are the answer
Next project. Nissan leaf battery mod maximum range test.
this was really dumb. thumbs up. I loved the video.
Gotta say I’m really enjoying this two doing shenanigans together
Stock 24 kwh leaf, 0-60 in 5.5 🙂 lets see how long my batteries last
😱😱73k mile Nissan leaf 🌿 going almost 100mph while getting beat up lasted longer then me in bed 🛏️👏👏
The Nissan leaf kinda sucks
Sadly we are all being played with this headlong rush to EV's. The Gov will be extending road tax to EV's in 2025, then when the fuel duty drops, the price of electricity for charging will go up (the Gov has to make up the short fall one way or another!) even more along with a clever pay by mile charging all managed and controlled through regulations built into the actual car. As we completly gave up on a proper energy mix by not investing in Nuclear to go with wind, hydro and solar, this is going to hit the poorest hard. We were sold on moving to EV's that it would save the planet (tell that to the kids mining Lithium and cobalt) , health and as importantly reduce costs for vehicle owners…it turns out it was never about saving costs for motorists. By the time we have transitioned to EV's fully the cost will probably be more than the current highly effecient hybrid/ICE cars that could have been extended with new bio fuel technologies including hydrogen/fuel cells etc. and at the end of the day hybrid engines are a great middle ground but no we are even getting rid of hybrid.
How can you tell what battery is installed in the leaf ?
Driving fast isn't really the purpose of electric vehicles anyway, nut nice test.
😂 If I’m driving 99mph with my Passat TDI EVO I can do 30 times more miles on one tank.
EV's are for city folk.
In Canada, driving 130 km/h (83mph) on the highway is normal, and it can be -20C in the morning commute. 21.8 miles (33km) is useless in the real world.
Realistically at 10C, I might get 50km (30 miles) with this car in normal highway driving…. Absolute rubbish.