A Nissan Leaf owner since February 2020 living on Awabakal Country (Newcastle).
The aim here is to provide people with some insight into owning an EV. Not being based in a capital city, I hope to provide a different perspective which helps others thinking about buying their own EV.
Posts
-
My iX1 is almost here
After nearly three months on a ship, it's almost here! -
iX1 ordered
My next car has been ordered. -
Back to the iX1
Since January the two leading options I was favouring were the Skoda Enyaq and the Audi Q4 e-tron.
-
A new contender
So while waiting for my job probation period to end an new contender leapt to the top of my list. The Skoda Enyaq.
-
Replacing the Leaf
So I’ve decided it time to replace the Leaf.
-
Charging Station Progress in Sydney
How has EV charging availability progressed in Sydney since I bought the Leaf?
-
Site converted to Jekyll!
WordPress is overkill for what I’m doing here.
-
Taking it to the limit
Use it all, charge it back up. -
Eleven Thousand and Eleventy-one
It's been nearly a year and 11,111km with the Leaf. -
'Tis but a scratch
Baby gets her first boo-boo -
October update
A more typical month, distance-wise.
-
Six months with the Leaf
The executive summary: I’ll never go back to driving an ICE vehicle. But the Leaf is definitely a transition car (for me) - I need the range to be a round trip to Sydney (about 300km) without having to recharge and having enough to spare so things like the weather don’t make you worry about getting home. So the next EV I buy will need about 400km range and be a price I can afford.
-
The first three-and-a-half months
Time for a summary of my ownership for the end of financial year 2019-2020.
-
1000km service
After 1 month and a little over 1000km it’s a good time to go over my impressions of the Leaf while I wait for the service to be completed.
-
First road trip
More planning required. -
First charge
The car’s first charge was at an NRMA fast charger. It took about 17 minutes, according to the charging station, to charge the car from 48% to 80%. There doesn’t appear to be a way to monitor the charging progress remotely.
-
Bye bye Renegade, hello Leaf
After a false start on Tuesday where I was half-way to Wyong when I got a text from the dealer to say they hadn’t received the money from the bank yet, I finally got to pick up my new Leaf yesterday. Yay!
-
Where are the chargers in south-western Sydney?
There is a distinct lack of type 2 and CHAdeMO chargers south of the M4 according to PlugShare.
-
Finance (finally) sorted
Banks, eh! -
Contract signed
So after getting approval from the bank that I could go and order the car, I drove down to Wyong again to do the deal. Except I knew that because there weren’t many alternatives I wasn’t expecting too much bargaining to go on. Going in with that attitude, I didn’t make the dealer work very hard.
-
First post (v3.0)
Okay. So on Saturday I signed a contract to buy a Nissan Leaf. I’ve wanted an electric car for a while and my Jeep Renegade is making me hate internal combustion engines.
subscribe via RSS