I love punching the pedal in my Leaf. I dont care if its technically slower than other ICE cars...
What the Leaf has done is made me a MORE agressive driver. I 'floor it' more than I ever have. I now dodge in and out of traffic more than I ever have... Its the fast response.
On the routes I dirve everyone sloooowly accelerates... I assume to save gas. However - in the Leaf I feel like I am sitting there waiting...
Something else I found interesting... sometimes the quick 0-40 time really gives me what I need to make the next stoplight. I used to accelerate sloooow like everyone else but would hit many of stoplights... so I either went slooower to wait out the red light without stopping or just had to stop at every light. I find because I am going faster most of the time I can make the lights. For example, in this 40mph zone on the way home... I punch it to 45-50pmh, coast back to the speed limit, and make it through the next lgiht... everyone else is 100 yards behind me and they dont make the light.
I would have never done this in my old car... to do the same thing I would need to get it up to 4,000 RPM making a ton of noise... worry that I may damage teh engine somehow, and I could actually see my gas gauge move down lol.
I dont feel loud doing it in the Leaf, I dont feel like I am going to blow my engine up doing it and it does not cost me as much (out of pocket) in fuel to do it. Those things combined make it a fun experience for me.
