wtdedula said:
I just saw this thread and want to respond to give my thoughts.
I think the analog speedometer sucks. I was really stressing over this for the month prior to the 2018 Leaf announcement.
I really liked the digital speedometer in the previous generation Leaf. Plus it looks really wierd to throw in a single analog guage to the right of an all-digital display. I don't know what Nissan was thinking about.
I consider the digital speedometer to be a status symbol of a car which is otherwise loaded with high-tech features.
For this reason, I will likely not purchase the 2018 Leaf but instead will purchase a used previous generation Leaf in the hopes that Nissan will change back to all digital Speedometer in the 2019 or 2020 Leaf. I am also waiting for 2019 or 2020 too get the upgraded battery pack and upgraded ProPilot.
One thing Nissan could have done was to make the digital panel in the instrument all digital and this would have given them the option of displaying the speedometer in either digital or analog. It just looks cheezy for them to use a digital flat panel and then stick in an analog guage - why not ALL didital, Nissan ? Every other EV I have looked at has a digital Speedometer display.
Tim
If it makes you feel any better, the speedo is still decoding digital CAN-bus data to obtain the speed. It's just moving a needle instead of painting digits.
If numerals are a must-have, maybe the next version can use these bad-boys to feel more "modern":