Doing its bit for the environment Nissan is soon to release the Nissan Leaf – an all-electric zero emissions producing city car. If you’ve already seen our hands-on of the Nissan Leaf you’ll know we were pretty taken with it. Read on to see why, and have a peep at our hands-on test drive.
The Nissan Leaf shows that owning an electric car doesn’t have to mean losing face losing face in your personal credibility stakes. While it’s clean design won’t have more luxurious car types honking in jealously, it hardly looks as if it’s fallen from the ugger tree.
The Nissan Leaf features connected sat-nav, Bluetooth stereo and air-conditioning as standard, and simple controls, without gears. Instead of filling it up with petrol you plug it into a charging station, or at home. Quick charge tops up the battery to 80 per cent in just 20 minutes. That sounds long, but compare that to the length of time it takes to charge your phone.
According to one of the captions in our test-drive video below, it’s ‘wheely rather good’, so do check it out in our video of the week.
