At Home Charging Your Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle - My Advice on Getting Started

Handy tips and tricks for charging your Nissan Leaf Gen 2. These are useful things I wish I knew on day one including; using the charging port, charge timer, general home charging info and charger locking mechanism details. I hope you find this helpful and congrats on either buying or looking at purchasing an EV!

[@majinnick]

Great video! I’m getting a Leaf soon and it is my first EV so this was helpful.

[@ev-ideas]

Cheers Nick. Pleased it helped a bit. I keep learning more so need to post a new video. So much to learn with these things but lots of fun. 🙂

[@ev-ideas]

It's a 2019 car. No idea why I said 2011 in the video.

[@CrustyCrip]

Drive a 2016 Leaf with the 30kwh battery, which has some battery degradation. My suggestion for charging: do your overnight charging at the lowest rate your charger supports, which will get you to the charge level you need for day use. Since Leafs don’t do active thermal management, you don’t want to stress the battery with a high charge rate.

[@maureenparry3818]

Thank you for your informative video - very helpful

[@kristie8727]

Great video. Thank you for sharing

[@michaelmcclafferty3346]

A very helpful and well explained video. Thanks very much.

[@ev-ideas]

👍I really appreciate the positive feedback. Thanks for taking a look at the video.

[@thisislogout]

Great video. I have one question: Why doesn't ANYONE (and I've watched a lot of videos on how to charge my 2018 leaf) mention the Charge Time Screen? It shows four options:
6.6kw (AC 200-240V)
3.6kw (AC 200-240V)
1.4kw (AC 200-240V)
50kw (Quick Charge)
I'm only confused about the first two options. They each have an "on" select mode. How do I know which to turn on when charging at home on a designated 200-240v receptacle? The manual doesn't explain this in detail. Any Info would be appreciated. Thanks.

[@TieuXuanTu75]

Nissan Kicks E Power better ,,dont need charging

[@paulo3564]

Low range and expensive.

[@ev-ideas]

Depends on what you're after. For us the range is fine (the range of the earlier models 24kw and 30kw was too low for us though) and it was actually one of the most affordable options out of EV options we looked at.

[@michaelh1832]

You can get a new Leaf for as little as $20k US, my 2020 SV Plus cost me about $28k US after trading in my 2014 Leaf, and the rebates. Nissan underestimates the range, unlike other brands, mine has a range limit of about 270 miles (about 225 miles if going 75mph on the freeway). Also unlike other brands, the Nissan has top notch build quality, with the 2 Leafs I’ve owned, never have had to do any maintenance, no squeaks or rattles, I’m up to 45k miles on my 2020 and it looks and drives as if brand new. When you factor in the cost of gas and essentially zero maintenance over the life of the car, the Leaf is quite inexpensive relative to other cars. It handles like a go cart, and while decent off the line, the acceleration from 40mph-90mph is near sports car level (I also have a 2015 GTR). The self driving is a nifty gimmick, although I haven’t yet figured out how to use the e pedal.

[@ev-ideas]

​@@michaelh1832 ​your SV plus sounds fantastic! 62kwh would be great upgrade for me. There are actually quite a few now that are a really reason price and that gives you a really good range and it perfect for the majority of trips. You're right about the overall economy and the build quality is right up there. I hear that the Nissan Leaf 62kwh is faster than the 42kwh. Your might get to 62 miles/h in 6.9 sec! Certainly quicker than most ICE in that price range.