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The Leaf is more of a golf cart with a compact car shell around it. Range is only 60-miles or so. You should be able to get that with a gas-tank sized battery pack in any compact car.

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The leaf has 150-226 miles of range depending on the battery option. Even the first generation nearly a decade ago had more than 60.

I've heard that cold weather combined with high speeds and a very degraded battery and running the heater can leave some of them with an effective range around 60 to 80 miles.

You don't even need to have high speeds or heater usage. 1st gen Leaf's have 60mi range pretty consistently just because of how small the battery was, and how degraded they are.

In general the Leaf seems to be a bad buy, IMO, just because they do not have any liquid cooling. I don't know why they think they can get away with it... but literally every other EV manufacturer decided liquid cooling/heating is necessary for operating... but not Nissan.

That’s a 2nd gen leaf, it has a 40kWh battery and a range around 150 miles (240km).

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