Sorry if my Google-fu is weak. I tried several search terms and don't seem to be able to turn up an answer.
I'm shopping for an April+ 2013 or 2014 Leaf. I need to convince my spousal critter of the long-term wisdom of this choice, since we like to drive our cars into the ground (I usually keep an ICE car until it's at least 20 years old).
For that generation battery, assuming the car was/is kept in the benign climate of Seatte for its whole service life and uses primarily 120 V charging (at least after we get it), how many years are expected before the range on a charge drops to 20 miles, on 30-35 mph surface streets.? What about to 10 miles, which we could handle if we can get on the power cables at work every day?
We would probably drive the car about 5000 miles per year if we used it for all our work commuting and some errands on evenings and weekends, at least as long as we could rely on >25-30 miles per day.
I'm shopping for an April+ 2013 or 2014 Leaf. I need to convince my spousal critter of the long-term wisdom of this choice, since we like to drive our cars into the ground (I usually keep an ICE car until it's at least 20 years old).
For that generation battery, assuming the car was/is kept in the benign climate of Seatte for its whole service life and uses primarily 120 V charging (at least after we get it), how many years are expected before the range on a charge drops to 20 miles, on 30-35 mph surface streets.? What about to 10 miles, which we could handle if we can get on the power cables at work every day?
We would probably drive the car about 5000 miles per year if we used it for all our work commuting and some errands on evenings and weekends, at least as long as we could rely on >25-30 miles per day.