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Seems like the lack of charge limit could be addressed by a smart EVSE.

You would only purchase a Leaf over a M3/MY if you could get it much cheaper. It's not a road trip car because of the lack of active battery cooling. That said for the right price, the Leaf is a good around town car.

As long as you don't need long distance trips with multiple charging stops this is fine!

How much did it cost.

Hi Paul. Very informativ I drive a NISAN Liev now 8 Years. I am very happy with it. My daily commutes is 60km. For charging i use destination charcher Type 2 22kW charcher AC The has there a one pase charging of 7.5kW per hour. Like that have a work day gives me from 50% to 90% charge every 3 day. So it like you sad, i arrive at work and for my lunch break the car is reddy. I will never drive a ICE car again. My last trip was 400km for a price of 45CFR 0.3SFr/kWh. About the 80% the first generation of LEAV had the poebility the Leave e+ not. The only sad part is. That CaDeMo is being taken out on our Freeways.

gas charging 2 minutes fully charge LOL!!!

It's funny this guy is complaining about the budget EV not having luxury car features like the ability to program a garage door opener into your rear view mirror and push the button when you get home on a budget. EV then he's telling us he bought it cuz it is a budget EV but yet the oldest vehicle in his fleet at the time of filming this is possibly 4 years old and he owns three vehicles that he purchased all of as a brand new vehicles.

Awesome video, will you try the A2z chademo-CCS Adapter?

I have a 2017 leaf, and it is great for around town. Doesn't even come close to a Model 3 which you can get for pretty cheap now if you get a RWD that is a couple of years old. If my leaf was worth anything for a trade in, I would have switched already. Sadly, the trade in value of it is dismal. It's still a really comfortable car, so keeping my Leaf isn't going to bother me too much.

Thank you. This was very helpful!

Nissan should just keep making them!

I just bought a model 3 LR and I’m selling my leaf 40 Tekna. I do have some concerns because the leaf is such an easy car to use .

We had a 2013 Leaf for 5 years then upgraded to a 2022. The most fun car we have owned. Now that I'm older, I love the lane change assist. I don't have to crank my neck around every time to look at the blind spots. We do have an old ICE car (2007 Avalon) we use a few times a year for long freeway trips. It is a big freeway cruiser that has a soft ride. The combination of the two cars works great. It doesn't have to be black or white, electric or gas.

We have two Leafs, a Gen 2 that we bought new, and a Gen 1 we bought from the estate of a neighbor down the road. There is a big difference between the way the two handle and the range anxiety for the Gen 1. We also have a Tesla M3 we also got second hand by I guy I work with who really wanted a Polestar 2. The Tesla is good for road trips and car pooling. The Gen 2 Leaf is the best all rounder as it has more room, and rides better IMHO. The Leaf Gen 1 only had 18,000 miles on it and runs like it is new.

Very informative and well explained to a new Leaf buyer in NZ.They are selling the remaining Leafs in the country at half the original price here,so I bought the bigger battery one like yours.They are actually made in Britain.Second hand imports come in from Japan.We all drive on the left so no problem!

Thanks mate that was really helpful 👍🏼👍🏼

Very helpful. Thanks!

This is the stupidest stuff ever Electric cars suck🤣 and so do the people that operate one

These seem great. I understand they have a space saver spare tyre, which is very useful also?.

I drove one for 3 years and sold it to my son. Some day I may get it back as I miss it for my local driving. 😊

We just bought a '22 Leaf for our daughter in college, used with 11K miles but it is spotless, like new. For driving around town which is all my daughter does, it's perfect, and it has a sporty appearance and handling, so she's quite happy. Plus I like taking it out for errands early in the morning while she's still asleep😆, and I've probably saved a tank of gas from my minivan over the past couple of months. Unfortunately it is the lowest trim, missing the goodies like 360 video, heated steering wheel and a couple of other options. Also it has the smaller battery, charges to 180 miles (realistically about 170). But it was $13,600 out of the dealer lot; the dealer handled the EV incentives so all we had to do was fill out a form. Too good a deal to pass up, really. Overall, it's a great little car; I'm wanting one for myself. Also, we have solar panels, so probably our power cost is lower than yours. We have to slow-charge from the 110V outlet in the garage. It's an older house and the electrician would charge like $5K to add a panel to handle 220V outlet to the garage, but he can charge $2K if we use a switcher that is about $600 on Amazon, and that's probably the route we'll take. I could nit-pick a few things; I wish it had wireless Car Play and Android Auto instead of having to plug in, but for $50 you can get a wireless adapter for that purpose. Plus the 360 view should have been standard on all trim lines in my opinion because of the safety factor. It's interesting that you charge to 80% to maximize battery life. We've been just topping it off every night and not thinking about battery life, but maybe we shouldn't be so cavalier. Anyway, thanks for the review!

Is the password for wall connector wifi the one which starts WPA2 : am i correct. Thank you for your answser

Good content

What i think is that Nissan needs to either discontinue the Leaf and focus all attention on the Ariya or heavily improve it, such as give the S a range of 212 and the SVplus with a range of 270,make both of them have a CCS charger, liquid cool battery, preheat battery setting, and give more technology to the S model such as heated steering wheel or heated seats and lane keeping assist. That what I think.

Nissan’s advice is to not worry about charging to 80% as they already have headroom on the battery. So just charge to 100% and don’t worry about it. You have a warranty.

Great video paul! I've watched all of your leaf content (i just bought one). I also bought the A2z ccs adapter. It works great. Any chance you will review it?

I am not surprised at all. I have rode in the model 3 and in the Leaf and I would take a Leaf over a Tesla abytime. Leaf is more comfortable, much better ride and fit and finish in the interior is far superior and the same goes for the msterials used. although the Y might match the leaf in terms of practicality, it is much more expensive. The Teslas are superior in terms of charge speed, no doubt but I would fsvour comfort and interior quality.

Great vid. Trickle charging at 110 won't hurt the battery though, right? It's just super slow?

I have a Universal Tesla Wall Connector and I cannot, for the life of me, get it to commission. The WIFI connection from the wall connector has been set up and the wall connector is accessible from the wifi. When I access the wall connector either through my wifi or through the wall connector's WIFI it tells me to use the Tesla One app to commission. So I sign into the Tesla One app, scan the QR code for the Wall connector and connect my phone to the wall connector's wifi. The wall connector is flashing green. Now I get the error "Failed to connect to device" on the Tesla One app. So it looks like I have an expensive paperweight.

Hello Paul and thanks for an interesting review! I'm thinking of getting a Leaf myself, but will probably buy a petrol car instead because I can't charge at home. I still like watching Leaf reviews though. Greetings from Sweden!

You should have a setting in the central screen to limit the battery charge to 80% or...whatever.

Cannot thank you enough for this video

Hey Paul, I can't get this to work at all. The wall connecter will not show in the Tesla app as connected to wifi ? I have tried everything, any ideas ? It does show up in my "home" (address where my home is) I can't use any of the charging stats etc. which is frustrating. Have tried connecting to wifi many times, restarted router, restarted wall connector, restarted my iphone etc. Help me please.

The dryer outlet being used here is a 30 amp NEMA 14-30 so it's well below the 50 amps an actual 14-50 outlet could provide. However the Leaf is limited to a rather low 6.6kW which is below what a 30 amp outlet could do and well below what a 50 amp outlet can do as well. So you're more limited by the car itself rather than how much power you have available in your home. Don't buy a Leaf unless you really understand it's limitations.

Good stuff and well explained. As an older driver doing mainly short runs I doubt whether I will ever go to a charging station. I am having a home charger fitted in a few days and I will charge the car between midnight and 5.00am when the rate is very low. I like driving the Leaf immensely having had it for a few months now. Winters in Scotland are not too bad so I don’t expect too many issues to arise. I learned some good information from this video so thanks.

Thank you! Worked like a charm.

better looking ev duhh!

Very helpful! Thanks! Just bought a used 2022 Leaf and the salesman told me basically nothing this helpful about charging. I am not happy and I'm not sure I want to deal with this. I think a hybrid car would have been preferable. Maybe I am just a little overwhelmed.

I have a 2020 leaf and the old style dash buttons was a selling point for me. Easier to operate with gloves and on feel instead of messing around with just a big screen. And I get all I need from CarPlay.

How many milage would you guess the battery can put out in its life time If u charge 20-80%....

Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day. 😮😊😊😊

I’m not an EV owner but interested. 2 questions: 1. Do you need a 20amp or 15amp standard outlet? 2. Why do you need to set the charging timer vs just letting it charge until you need to drive it?

How do I reset the Wi-Fi password?

Good reviews Paul

Help please.. ​Is it possible to buy the same size from the front and put it on the back ? Now you can ha e all four sizethe same? Thanks​@paulshoover

i had same problem, but i had some diferent problem my door indicator sow me that the door was opend. that hapent after i washed the car.

Muchas gracias!!! Tu video solucionó el problema de que el instalador dejó configurado el cargador a baja corriente, no sabía que hacer….

Thank you for the informative video. I have a 2018 Leaf SL, 46Ah battery, EPA 150mi range. I'm retired and find that the Level 1 charging serves my purpose just fine for near-ranging in the SF Bay Area. The Leaf is perfect for the LibNut Bastion 😂 of the SF Bay Area, L2 and ChaDeMos up the yingyang everywhere. I have two 4L V8 vehicles to range further - a Land Rover and a Lexus sedan. Once you get away from lala land, say into the California Central Valley, charging options diminish noticeably.

Paid $600 for set of 21" Uberturbines with 3 good tires and size up the back to 295/35/21 PIRELLI for $500

Wow, I thought the granny charger was slow on our 240v sockets in the UK but after seeing it run on 110v I'm not complaining 👍👍