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Now that summer has finally reached the west coast of Canada, I and a co-worker decided to take the LEAF to Victoria and back without recharging at the (free) Fairmont Empress EV station. The total return drive is about 125 km, but we were going to a meeting that was slightly out of town, so...

ECO mode: always! Tires are probably the same as everywhere else (Bridgestone something or other IIRC) and the pressure is set to MFR recommendation. No HVAC but driver's seat heater on. My 7.0-7.5 km/kWh drives have been at a maximum of 90 km/h (56 MPH), but about 1/3 of the route at a...

Minor update: the (slightly) warmer weather has increased range quite a bit, to the point where I feel semi-confident that we might be able to get 130 or 140 km out of it before getting to one bar. I have been using the km/kWh screen and it is definitely a good tool. The last couple of drives...

We did the first drive since learning about the km/kWh display last night. Same drive of 86 km that was reported two times previously in my first post, same result at the end (one bar with warning to recharge) as the first time we went up there, but at least along the way we could see what the...

Thank you, I will study it, good work!

No, where is this chart?

Oh thanks, I didn't know 20% was left when the last two bars are used up. I did get the annoying voice reminding us to recharge soon once, with one bar left. I also watched the Top Gear eposide with the LEAF last night and it explained why the headlights are so prominent, it's to direct wind...

Aha, it's only been that cold maybe two nights this winter. Good to know, thanks.

The last 6 of the VIN are 015226. Profile updated, but I would guess that more than 4 digits will be useful because the total production is well above 10K..... So is there an actual VIN registry here? Is someone tracking them?

Thanks for the tips guys, we have to take them to heart and become better LEAF users. I will do just that. I use a ScanGauge II in my smarts and the feedback it provides when driving is helpful (the smarts average 60 US MPG -under 3.95 L/100 km, one of them over 230,000 km). The smarts both...

Hi from Canada, our office here on Vancouver Island (the warmest part of this country) has had a LEAF with the cold weather package in its fleet for three months now. I have driven it a few hundred km now and what follows is impressions I have posted on another car brand forum. Overall I can...