They may be acceptable for some people, but IMO they suck. Not only is the cornering/handling mediocre (some people don't care about this understandably), but they are very fragile. Two people on the forum already destroyed tires in potholes. I just destroyed the sidewall [gently] on a curb.
I did it at the end of my driveway, at about 1mph about 1ft before I was going to come to a complete stop anyway, just barely glanced the curb (yes I am still getting used to the absolute dimensions of the car, and if it wasn't me scraping a curb it would have been the wife eventually). Got a little 1" strip of curb rash on the rim and put a couple big gashes in the tire sidewall (I don't consider it safe to drive on so I'll have to replace it). I've rubbed curbs before with different types and sizes of tires (truck tires, car tires, etc.) and while it made the tires look bad temporarily (until they re-oxidized in the sun and rain), I never had sidewall damage significant enough to require immediate replacement.
The Ecopias may give a couple more miles range on the Leaf, but at the expense of durability, and that's a bigger issue to me than absolute range, especially in a car with no spare. Tomorrow I think I'm going to replace all 4 tires with something more to my liking... hopefully Discount Tire will give me the $50/tire trade-in on just 3 tires.
I did it at the end of my driveway, at about 1mph about 1ft before I was going to come to a complete stop anyway, just barely glanced the curb (yes I am still getting used to the absolute dimensions of the car, and if it wasn't me scraping a curb it would have been the wife eventually). Got a little 1" strip of curb rash on the rim and put a couple big gashes in the tire sidewall (I don't consider it safe to drive on so I'll have to replace it). I've rubbed curbs before with different types and sizes of tires (truck tires, car tires, etc.) and while it made the tires look bad temporarily (until they re-oxidized in the sun and rain), I never had sidewall damage significant enough to require immediate replacement.
The Ecopias may give a couple more miles range on the Leaf, but at the expense of durability, and that's a bigger issue to me than absolute range, especially in a car with no spare. Tomorrow I think I'm going to replace all 4 tires with something more to my liking... hopefully Discount Tire will give me the $50/tire trade-in on just 3 tires.