Exactly... the worst thing for ICE cars are short trips that don't heat everything up to operating temp... I own plenty of performance wagons and would happily consider a Leaf or Prius over a scooter for short town trips.

Till they need to deal with a public charger lol

@@allosaurusfragilis7782 Well into retirement, buy a bungalow where you’re planning of spending your remaining years, garage/driveway to yourself to have a charger installed in, don’t feel confident doing any more big drives and don’t need to as kids drive to you / ferry you about for anything long. People generally get less and less confident or find it too much fuss to drive a lot in the latter years until they just end up pottering around locally (and eventually give up their licence or have it taken away from them). Battery won’t likely ever go under 50%. I live in an area with a lot of oldies and there’s loads of Leafs round here on drives that probably fit that demographic. Even I could probably get away with something like the last gen i3 for 95% of my driving but there’s just enough airport runs and decent 2nd/3rd gen EVs in my budget to sway me yet.

@@PaulSteere this Leaf has only six of twelve bars on the battery state of health indicator, so it's down to 50% capacity already, which is probably why the main dealer could not sell it. For it to have gone so badly in only eight years and with so little mileage is concerning. Warranty covers 8 years or 100,000 miles, with replacement battery if it falls below 9 bars (75%) capacity, so should have been covered.

@@allosaurusfragilis7782 If I can use a public charger then anyone can

It was first registered 24 March 2016 so the battery is still within warranty for another 7 weeks; you’re correct though re it being fooked, he needs to get a move on and take it up with Nissan.

Whats his chances?

he is in the public eye, so better than us lot...@@emmakane7888

This was 3 weeks ago, wonder how it went?

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I bet they've got out of it due to lack of 'servicing'.

Yes, I'm sure thats the reason the main dealer didn't want it...a heavily degraded battery and OUT OF BATTERY WARRANTY!!. The Leaf doesn't have battery cooling and that leads to faster degradation...plus it's 10 years old. EV batteries lose typically 2% of capacity a year on average, though every car will be unique based on how it was charged (lots of fast charging/not good), how it was driven and how long it's been left either fully charged or almost empty (not good) during it's life

@@jamesknightreading Does not need servicing for battery warranty

This applies to when battery purchased so if originally leased and then bought later in their updated deal, not sure where they stand. It is odd that with just a few months left before 8 years up the battery has not been changed.

If l want to drive an electric car l will go to a fun fair😂

Thanks! Will do!

in the us nobody is buying ev's because people have realized it's a scam, and nothing to do with the climate (another scam). i live in norway, here ev's are very popular, but i just spoke w a car salesman and he said the comb engine cars are selling like hot bread, especially because of the electricity scam (hi prices when THEY want). who wants to let govt to decide when and where you can drive? even eu is backpedaling w diesel "prohibitions". do your research.

@@TimQwant "nobody is buying EVs" and yet sales went up and Model Y was the best selling car? Re climate change, facts don't care about your opinion. 2023 was the warmest year in 100,000 years. Something is happening and it's happening more quickly than predicted.

@@grahamleiper1538 Yeah but he read a blog paid for by the oil industry. And they surely know more than thousands of scientists who have dedicated their lives to climate science.

@@grahamleiper1538 do you know how they get those temperatures? i'm from finland. this happens even in finland and our state msm wrote about it: the finnish meteorological institute has moved the temp probes to WARMER places😎there's your climate change! stop watching tv.

@@drunkenhobo8020 heard about corruption? stop watching tv.

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I guess this is a matter of function over form.

My wife and I were in our Nissan dealer service department today. Which strangely has started selling MGs now (cheap Chinese new cars at sub 20k-discuss). My wife has a 2019 Micra N sport. ( I think it’s a great car, looks good, nice sharp exterior design, Interiors good (interior is what actually sold it to me in the showroom back in 2019 almost straight away), has four doors but looks like a 2 door, has a proper handbrake, a proper manual gearbox and drives great with all the sprint you ever need in the suburbs of a city. Folks often ask us what it is. When you say it’s a Micra they say ‘I didn’t know they still made them but I would buy one. Too bad, you can’t anymore). Anyway, there was a new ‘Leaf’ parked beside the service reception in the showroom. We both commented on how boring it looked. Have designers just given up with car styling? It’s electric, therefore, never mind how it looks, you are doing ‘good’. If you want to sell the ‘future’ to us, at least make it desirable. Make it like the LCD TV compared to the CRT TV. Make it better in all ways to us ordinary car owners so that we desire one. ‘Saving the planet’ (debatable) is good, but not enough. Not holding my breath, anytime soon🙂

​@richardhorry unoffensive deisgns are easier to sell to committees, dealers, and buyers. However I agree the number of automakers who go for a corporate look like new Nissans,Mercedes, VW, Audi, Volvo is such a bore. No passion. Typically not ugly but just so uninspiring.

If they would have given leaf owners the option to darken the headlights, that would improve the looks IMO.

Nahhh. Late 90s/early 2000s, manufacturers figured out how to make headlights out of plastic instead of glass - hence why everything up until this era of car had ridiculous bug-eyed huge headlights. Now we have tiny slit-eyed headlights. As small as possible, because the style changed. We're still dealing though with oversized grills.

Yup. That dealer pulled a quick one selling it to Matt.

Agree 100%

I think that £3,800 from the dealer is the very top of what it's worth retail. I could use it as I do two 30 mile trips a day with time to charge in the middle, but few normal people will want it in that state.

I expect there will be twist in this story with this battery to be sellable for that price,hi could get it possible fixed until 9 bars under warranty, but still this is low spec model, not so easy sell with no heated seats and steering wheel, fingers crossed hi will turn it in happy story for him

@@igor6559 yes if he can get it fixed under warranty then it would be a very cheap price he paid, I think typically nissan buy them back. A key thing to check is if it has had the battery update, if it has not seen a main dealer it might not have this update.

Haha I’ll leave the socks and sandals to Ian 🙃

Years ago hubnut bought an old Jag or Daimler as he drove off I never laughed so much in my life, just watching him trying to connect the seatbelt

@@HighPeakAutos 14:45 RFID means ‘contactless’ (practically speaking). It was a 50kW charger and the battery was capacity was probably less than 20kW and there was still some charge in it. It must have been fully charged within an hour, I think. If you leave it overnight, the slower charging option might be cheaper but that’s just my guess.

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The so-called Rapidgate was massively mis-reported. The 40kwh Leaf was programmed to protect the battery by ramping down charging speed if you Rapid charge three or four times in quick succession. They upgraded the software to be more generous with this safety protocol, but it was down to over cautious software and not entirely down to the battery itself. My 24kwh Nissan Leaf has NO active cooling and it has actually cooled down during charging on some occasions. When I drove to Edinburgh I did eight consecutive Rapid charges on the way up and eight consecutive Rapid charges on the way back with no noticeable effect on charging speed. The temperature did rise quite a bit but it capped off below the point where it would be an issue. I learned during those two days (drove up on a Tuesday, drove back the next morning) that the battery was never going to overheat on any journey I was ever likely to make. And in eight years it never has.

Imagine how ridiculous you would think it was if you were told not to keep the tank of a petrol or diesel full because it would be f**ked in 35000 miles. If we are going to transition to a cleaner technology to replace ICE, we really do need one that is not seriously flawed like EVs are.

Terrible Keeping a battery at 100% constantly is something that engineers should have made idiot proof

unbelievable that it is not capable of stopping the charging - I'm sure my sister's Leaf does that.

@@toyotaprius79 yeah , maybe it should run the HVAC automatically after 48 hours to bring the SOC down to 80% .

My 24kwh Leaf did a 890 round trip to Edinburgh in 2017. After 94,000 miles it still has 10 bars and could still do the same trip. I can still drive ANYWHERE in the UK with it. I've been to Brighton, Harrogate, Leeds, Kings Lynn, Lincolnshire, Sheffield, etc., etc. The most practical and capable car I've ever driven.

​@@trevorberridge6079 I'm 100% sure, that I rather do those trips in my petrol car, I respect myself too much, to waste any time to charge a car. It's 3 minutes to fill my tank with petrol and I can easily do 500 miles+. So yeah, enjoy wasting time, for waiting for your car to charge. 😂

@@shadowww133 I have NEVER encountered anyone who boasts that their car can do 500+ miles on a tank of petrol that has actually driven 500 miles without a break. My previous Fiesta could do 450-500 miles on a tank and I never drove it further than 130 miles in one stretch.. Most modern EVs can do that distance and a lot more. You can get a used Zoe that's less than £5k and still does 200+ miles on a single charge. In practice a journey of 500 miles would be no different because you'd be making stops anyway. I once hired a Kia e-Niro with 300 miles of range and drove 150+ miles to Nottingham. I didn't need to charge, but I still stopped three times on route. I could have done the journey with the same number of stops in a car with only 90 miles of range and taken the same amount of time. No-one NEEDS 500 miles of range. Certainly not in the UK where nowhere is a 1000 miles from anywhere else and 500 miles takes an average of 11 hours of continuous driving to complete. Impractical, dangerous and no-one ever does it except in an experiment or challenge.

@@trevorberridge6079 you're delusional, nothing gonna help you🤣🤣🤣 very often I'm doing trips for 1000/2000 miles, and I'm stopping every 300/400 hundred miles, mainly to put fuel in my car, for a toilet, and maybe, to buy a coffee. And honestly, stopping every 100 miles for 40minutes, it's good for people who have extremely boring life, only those who don't value their time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I wouldn't take electric garbage for free. I love sound of my car, and I can feel that it have a soul, electric cars are just soulless. And it's not a new tech, it's actually very old technology, and it never worked. And, sitting all day, on thousands of batteries 🔋 don't sound very healthy. It's a garbage technology, basically big RC car, nothing more.

Not without stopping untold tines you can't ​@trevorberridge6079

your home charger would be phase 1 2.4kw 10amp or 3kw 15 amp, phase 2 is 7kw 32 amp

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It would. She is the perfect EV customer...

Until she has the slightest of prangs and then the insurance will write it off. Or it catches fire due to overcharging/battery issues.

Never heard of a Leaf catching fire, and my insurance is cheaper than my wife's Zafira, which had a recall because the AC was prone to catching fire. But then the Mail Online or The Sun don't tend to run stories about ICE cars catching fire because it doesn't pay as well ;)

@@decimal1815 I don't read newspapers as they're nothing more than comics for adults. I base my research upon REAL data. But if you're happy with your overpriced piece of EV crap, then more power to you.

What's this REAL data then@@bobjames6622, care to enlighten the rest of us?

I have had Porsches at the lights in mine. Then they murder us past 30, but the first few seconds are mad. Just turn off ECO mode for this.

There are many Leafs still on the road from 2011

The taxi driver on my local rank, who uses a Leaf has. His has now covered 180k miles. My Kia eNiro is now just over 3 years old, with the battery still on 96% state of health. If I kept it, I wouldn't expect to get a battery refurbishment done until the car was around 12 years old.

Don’t worry Roy, I saw what you did there 👍😂

Yes they are parked permanently ​@@Ravenstorm1999

Badum tish... Roy's here all week.

Shame the range isn't a little better - I've considered getting one of the older ones as an extra runabout for occasional use but even then there is too little margin for error with the range on them with our use (living in a rural area a good few miles from the nearest proper town).

The tech has moved on considerably, in other brands like Tesla, VW and Peugeot / Citroen / Vauxhall.

⁠@@connclissmann6514will be interesting to see how they fare in 10+ years..

I would say, personally, 48 weeks out of the year I only do about 60 miles and there are plenty of chargers within walking distance...obviously still wouldn't be a compelling choice given the big price premium, and the battery is going to eventually give up regardless of how well it's looked after.

The tech has changed quite a lot. Still, this I'm sure will make someone a decent run around.

Yes it does

I’ll call tomorrow

Fully charged and no charge. Win win chaps

The warranty guarantees minimum 9 bars of battery in that period - the work they will do to refurb the battery will get it back up to 9 bars rather than a replacement battery

What a faf lol ill stick with my d5 xc70 thanks 😅

@@greg55678still better than nothing. 9 bar car is definitely easier to sell

You’ve got a great car in a CHR Toyota self charging masterpiece 👌

Hybrids! Exactly 🤷‍♂️

I had a ch-r as a rental car a while ago, couldn't understand why would people buy it 😄 rear visibility is shocking

I hope your Toyota CHR does better for you than my in-laws RAV 4. It's a 16 reg, which they've had from new, and they cover around 3 to 4000 miles a year in it. It has less than 25k miles on it. It recently failed it's MOT, needing £1500+ worth of work to get a pass. Kept garaged, in a rural village, nowhere near the sea....

Your going to own that CH-R for a long time, lol

But on the plus side there's a big battery health gauge that shows up on the dashboard pics in the adverts. Saves a lot of bother.

As a Leaf owner I can attest to battery degradation not being nearly as bad as people seem to believe. Just ask yourselves, would Nissan warranty the battery for 100k miles and 8 years if the battery were likely to conk out anywhere close to that? It would mean they have to replace the battery for free in perpetuity. And just so you know, 100k miles and 8 years is a standard warranty for most EVs. So the Leaf isn't regarded as a particular high risk for battery degradation compared to other EVs. They are generally speaking very hardy cars.

@@trevorberridge6079 but is degradation the same as ‘conking out’? The old leafs seemed to lose capacity to charge to 100% more quickly than other ev’s.

@@andytunnicliffe7223 Correct. Because active thermal control is better for the battery and the early Leaf models don't have it. But in reality the car still does well over 100k miles before it drops below 70% capacity. If you treat it from day one with battery health in mind it degrades much slower. I actually took my battery from 79% back up to 92% by taking care of it better after the first year. But, if you continue with bad habits it will deteriorate faster. Treat it well and it should last 12 good years and the battery won't have actually conked out even then.

I’m on the verge of moving from diesel to a 64kwh Kona. I have a 160 mile commute - would you say it will do that even in freezing weather with lights, wiper and heater?

Stick to diesel, 500 miles for 5 minutes refueling time. It's a no brainer. Unless you like watching you life ebb away waiting for your battery to charge.

@@tonygarlingewarren7456 thanks. Free charging at work means I don’t need to do that.

Even if you have solar panels, any electricity you use from them to charge an EV is not "free" - it costs you whatever your electricity supplier would have paid you to export to the grid (in our case 15p per kWh). For most EV owners with solar panels it's actually cheaper to be on an off-peak overnight grid charging tariff (typically 5-8p per kWh) and to export what you generate during the day.

@@TheRoybeasley it’s free at work

I wouldn't mind the whole EV thing if that's how it was. Cheap basic small city cars for the short hops. I'd have no issues with that. Whats being pushed though, is massive, heavy ridiculously expensive ones. Defeats the whole point as far as I'm concerned

​@allosaurusfragilis7782 I'm but sure you know what the point is. Many ev's are now the same price of petrol and diesel cars brand new and cheaper to run

I had a Leaf and put 60k miles on it. Electric was cheap then and the car pretty much paid for itself. On the list of cars I should have kept.

@@allosaurusfragilis7782, yep and they all have a host of extras like self closing doors, self opening and closing hatches, all adds to the weight/range penalty.

I call bullshit. So you used 8kWh in 5 miles. When generally these cars consume 1kWh per 3-4 miles.

Started out with 99 miles, came back with 67. Foot to the boards for 5 miles between junctions 62 and 60 on the A14 and back. I saw it myself, I was waiting for him. So keep your bullshit - I know, I was there. @@deansh8506

Autotrader did a flat out range test on a 10 year old LEAF which had just 8 out of 12 battery bars showing (about 70% of its new capacity), and managed 21.6 miles. The top speed on these is limited to 88mph (despite the overly optimistic speedo reading 98) so it would have taken 15 minutes to drain completely. The temperature was below freezing for the test though. A brand new one would have done around 30 miles in 21 minutes under the same conditions - so in theory you could lose a third of its range, 10 miles, in 7 minutes. If it was -3C. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/r6ppaH19folksGg.html

We were given this brand new Leaf to evaluate for our job - courier doing stop start in a 10 hour day covering on average 78 miles. We drove like we stole it, my colleague was a petrol head and we needed to know if it was up to the task. 13 hour recharge from a 13 amp socket. Max indicated range 99 miles. Speedo, accurate or not indicated 99 mph flat out, and TBH it was not for off. The figures I quoted above were accurate, on a fully charged battery. This was the third electric vehicle we evaluated, and at the time, none of them were up to the job. After I retired, an EV was supplied which had a range of 220 miles. I can't remember what it was. EVs have their place, and I have used, driven or flown engines of 2 and 4 stroke, petrol, diesel, LPG, Avgas, Steam/Coal and electric from mopeds to HGV, railway locos and aircraft. Nothing would make me have an EV for my own use, it's not practical out in the sticks for me.

@@foxstrangler So you deliberately ruined the test to ensure it didn't work? I'll go and evaluate a petrol car by driving everywhere in first gear and only filling up the tank using a 500 ml plastic bottle. Turns out they're rubbish!

It's maybe the reason for some of the degradation. It's 10 years old, so naturally it will have lost a fair bit anyway

The original Japan made models had a chemistry that soon became synonymous with degradation. Later models improved this but even still with no thermal management the battery can suffer if treated to high temperatures and high states of charge

@@musclerent a 2016 car is not, by any stretch of imagination, 10 years old...

yeah but there ar companies doing their custom thermal system management for leaf plus this youtuber can buy this with larger battery pack to get around 420km of range installing 62kwh battery.

Exactly. It needs a battery pack refurb....

What this guy said This has clearly just been a fleet car that's been left plugged in and that's what's buggered the battery.

The car is 10 years old, so no guarantee left, plus unless there's a full service history that warranty might have ended many years ago

its over 8 yr lol

​@@mightywatcher5894First registration was March 2016 according to DVLA.

It actually isn't, because the Leaf is the *worst* example of an EV from 9 years ago. It has poor - almost non existent battery management - it has no heat-pump, and poor battery degradation. Something like a 2 year old Hyundai Kona would literally blow this Leaf out of the water, as it would have 5 times the range, way more performance, be vastly superior in it's efficiency, and would be capable of using chargers capable of charging in around a 5th of the time this old Leaf could. There would be no comparison.

I always thought the design was terrible, but after a holiday in Japan it all makes sense. The exterior is very japanese and fits in perfectly. The interior has a bit of a Gundam vibe. I get it now and enjoy its Japaneseness, and that it sings to you when you get in 😊. It complements a longer range EV for big trips, but still does most of our driving.

They're surprisingly quick off the mark.....

@@Brian-om2hh Yes they are!

He showed us the battery report and that explained everything!!

So you don't give a toss about whether you are killing your yet to be born grandchildren do you? Right decision, totally wrong reason.

Why not tesla ?French cars are problematic

Not forgetting the one on the windscreen under the wipers 😊

Plug in , Tap card, couldn't be simpler

@zenbudhism except you're meant to tap the card first ... 🙄

I've walked past them at Motorway services and IKEA!! Full of angry electric buzzing. Caged kilo Watts.

@johnland7318 the angry ones are the worst.... stay away from them for the love of God stay away from them

Leaving a car on a public rapid charger will not harm it. Charging stops when the desired level has been reached. Pf course it is inconsiderate but the only damage that is likely is to your wallet for the overstay charge.

It's about the length of time left idle. I'm in deep with the EV (Lithium) industry and use the analogy of a sponge for the condition of the battery. A slow drip will be absorbed by the sponge, but if the taps turned full on, plenty of water will bounce off never to be absorbed, then imagine a sponge sitting outside in the weather over the weeks... (dries out and cracks appear etc. Best way to maintain an EV is to slow charge to 85% (ish) never stretching its ability to absorb and if parked over time only have 50 or less % to ensure longigevity

without any evidence to support this, I would guess the car has been left plugged in charging all the time (or the SoC sitting close to 100% for extended periods of time).

It's OK - he got nissan to reset the SOH meter. Should be good for a couple of weeks at least!

A bit pointless now, as the Note went out of production some time ago....

No it's not. The plural is Lexuses because the name has nothing to do with Latin but is an invention by Toyota.

If the battery can be refurbed for less than a grand then fine...that's a decent vehicle for all those short hops. I find that hard to believe though....I'll try and look into that claim

@@allosaurusfragilis7782 The one Cleveleys did, cost £500. The video of the refurb is here on UKposts....

​@@Brian-om2hhfair enough , that's really good

That’s how the big main dealers work. Most have a 90 day policy which I don’t understand

I bet they had no idea the battery was still under warranty either. I have spoken to Stealerships where they did not even realise they were selling cars with battery rental. Even when I pointed it out to them - I think they thought I was making it up. My neighbour chopped in a Renault EV van [rented battery] and the dealer way overpaid him because they had no idea that the battery was rented (like Zoes).

Or buying a diesel....re Harry metcalfe

The average UK daily commute is 20.8 miles, and the average UK motorway trip is 70 to 80 miles. You don't need 300 miles range 90% of the time.

40% on a 30kwh Leaf is good for up to 53 miles. If you'd done the most basic maths you'd know that.

@@trevorberridge6079 if you do the most basic of maths you would realise that a 30kWh has an actual usable battery range of 28kWh when brand new. That being 360 GIDS's at 80Wh per GID. 40% of 28kWh is 11.2kWh. 11.2kWh x 3.25 miles/kWh (average efficiency for a LEAF) = 36 miles. But who in their right mind is going to drive the LEAF down to 0% as the range is very unpredictable at the lower end of the battery scale. So in the real world 30 miles range at best.

Indeed, Matt has more patience than me. I would have given that charger a proper shoeing.

I was having a great day until I saw this comment 😂

Tim vine eat your heart out!

Leafs are a great buy for a runaround car, to and from work locally etc as you say. Lots around, but some are nearing end of life battery wise! Good video Matt, had to admit you liked it! 👍😂

Most people in UK do 20 miles a day average.

@@gypsyemperor7535 AVERAGE ! If one day I do 90 miles and another 10 miles, on average that's 50 miles a day, does that mean it suits my needs ? Not by a long shot

@@andreichis-toie14 Then this prob isn't the best car for you 😂 leaded petrol sure took it's toll on the boomers

why would you even consider not walking if it’s under a mile away?

If you think all newer EV's are still the same as this car, then there's nothing much that can be done.....

@@Brian-om2hh The need to charge at a public charging station (if you can't charge at home) hasn't changed though has it? For me that's the major stumbling block with an EV. I don't want to hang around a charging station waiting for the thing to charge.

What happens if he reviews a broken 10 year old gasoline car? I guess those are "never again" too, right? Just trying to follow the logic.

​​@@jasonpollock9259no, a 10 yo petrol car will still do roughly the same mpg as when it was new, and filling up takes 5 mins max. 😉

@@arturseversons3444 Until you realise it drinks a litre of oil per fuel tank, the clutch is shot and first gear doesn't engage when it's cold.