Swaisland Harris have now had the Leaf for just over a month and we are continuing to find it to be an excellent town car. It is performing well and to some extent we forget that it is an electric vehicle. We are experiencing some difficulties with the mileage range indicator which seems to generate numbers on a random basis as you can be driving along one minute with 80 miles on, have a bit of a spurt and put the air conditioning on and end up with 50 miles. We only once got down to single figure range and thankfully we were close to a charging point. We had a trip into the country to the Battlesteads Restaurant at Wark and with four adults on board the car performed well despite being driven along the A69 at 70 miles an hour. The charge we got at the Battlesteads did reassure some of the passengers that we would get home.
We have done over 700 miles in the first month and it is proving to be good, the only problem has been getting to grips with the heating system, the frost that we had caused some de-icing problems and it was a cold drive to work.
Hello - We're back with an answer for you! It is normal for the mileage range indicator to generate numbers on a random basis because the car is calculating the mileage based on what the car is currently doing. So if you were to slow down the expected mileage would increase. Let us know if you have any other questions. We look forward to reading more blog posts from you! Best, UK Nissan LEAF
Posted by: UKNissanLEAF | 11/24/2011 at 05:44 PM
Hello - Thanks for your blog post! We are currently looking into the difficulty that you experienced regarding the mileage range indicator and will get back to you shortly.
Posted by: UKNissanLEAF | 11/24/2011 at 03:32 PM