New Nissan Leaf Hatchback 110kW Tekna 39kWh 5dr Auto, Metallic - Gun Metal Paint, Part leather with ultrasuede and synthetic leather - Black

Wow, great price
if you do less than 150 miles a day on average this would be great option. I have the longer range version. Save £4k a year on fuel (do 200 miles a day at 2p a mile rather 20p a mile my old ford focus cost). Since owning it saved £16k and the car is worth around £10k now, and it cost me £29k so could sell now at no financial loss . First for me (edited)

Great car. But will never do that range. I have had a few Nissan Leafs and thy really nice but their range is very sad. They also suffer from problems when being rapid charge in quick succession. They have no battery cooling.

I got a 2nd hand one from 2018, you can get a good deal on one with a decent battery if you look around, think we paid about £10k. It's a nice car, you're probably getting about 100 in the winter with the heating going

I got one of these in 2021, I use it for private hire in London, it's easy to maintain and the one pedal driving is revolutionary (I barely use the break pedal anymore).

But one major issue which no one will tell you is that the vehicle is extremely uncomfortable on bumps ir potholes or those awfully repaired manholes. It bounces around like a golf buggy.

It's because of the very stiff suspension all EVs have.

And the 20mph London speed makes it even worse on bumps, my back hurts after every shift.

Meh for that range you could get a used electric corsa, mokka or ds3 crossback used for near half the price. 

Good price. It's a brand new EV, this is getting to more realistic values and they have been making these for a while. (unlike Stellantis, eCorsa etc)

Its a Leaf.

Everyone knows its a leaf and it's not meant for slogging up the motorway every day.

If you have off street parking with home charging (ie a plug point) and do the usual school run, 10mile commute. This is fine and a nice choice. Every couple of nights, plug in, like you do with your phone, and wake up to a full battery for about 2 quid.


You can't tow a JCB in it or will you survive long at the '24hr Le Mans', but you can happily take the kids to school, pick up some dinner from Tesco and be home in time for your amazon delivery.

Worth 30% of what you paid after three years

I have one of these, the actual range I get is ~130

Absolute bargain - fantastic deal for still a very good family car. If you do less than 150 miles per day and have home charging, this is an absolute winner. If you do the occasional long trip, there's still plenty of good chademo options. If you do frequent 200+ mile trips, get a Tesla instead.

Superb deal.

Chademo is a dead technology. You won't be able to charge it publicly within a few years, that's if you can find a working charger now....avoid.

Looks too blocky

Had a test drive in one last weekend, the E-pedal is absolutely shocking! As soon as you lift off the accelerator it's akin to an emergency stop. Frankly it is downright dangerous as following cars would not be expecting such harsh deceleration. The 59kw version was phased out 9 months ago and this one is also heading out of production in favour of the Ariya.

From what I read it looks like hydrogen fuel cell cars will be the future. Still bought a diesel and coming back from a recent holiday to Scotland it would have been very restricted/impossible if I was in one of these. Still amazed they are still selling electric cars with such limited range.

Guessing the range might put people off - quite low these days in comparison to the competition.

Having a non Tesla electric
car that claims 313 I can confidently say in real terms 168 is not worth buying even at 10k. This month the UK motorway infrastructure got barely acceptable but try going from London to Manchester in the winter and see yourself paying £150 plus each way in charging costs. It's ridiculous. To make true sense a battery needs to do 300miles in real world tests and the road charging costs need to come down. Whenever you go and wherever you go you finish with a bad taste in your mouth unless you get there in a Tesla. Tesla is the way to go no other manufacturers are close. Their supercharger network and travel planner always ensures a supercharger is nearby and with costs 30% lower, they are substantial savings as well.

Lesson buy a Tesla until you are that person who doesn't care about good painfully shared advice and lives to repeat a cautionary tale. You were warned, stay clear from this car.

Not a bad deal for a new one. The cheapest I've seen the Shiro model (that is similar) was approx £18500 around a month ago.
I'd really recommend getting a used one though. Plenty around, 10-12k will get a low mileage 3 or 4 year old one. Battery may have lost 10% of capacity but they are great cars and will keep going for years.
Good amount of room inside. Turn off eco mode and they drive like a hot hatch. 0-30 will put a lot of cars to shame. We've got a 2018 mk2 and a 2015 mk 1..great cars for local use.
If you need to do long distances regularly then I wouldn't recommend. (edited)

I'm really tempted to get rid of my diesel and buy an EV like this one, think if would work wll for me. The only thing that worries me is the cost of insurance, last time I checked for a new lower end EV, it was coming out over £1500 more expensive per year than my diesel. Kind of negates the savings. What are other peoples experience on the insurance side?

one speed.....nahh

Great price but the range is really poor.

The range on this car drops to about 100 miles in winter and its hard to even get that much, interior looks like it was designed by the makers of Sega and atari. This is a pile of trash in 2024

Pardon, wouldn't buy one even if it was £10k.

39Kwh battery 🤮

Cheers, I bought a few. Will rent to Uber drivers. What a business.

That's better isn't it for the same money?

Just bought my first electric car come from bmw x3 diesel 180bhp doing 20k a year cost me £360 a month in fuel, tax , service my model 3 Tesla has reduced this to £35 why didn’t I do this sooner never going back the model 3 cost me £24k but I love it . Even if I had bought a 16k ice car it would have cost more in 3 years than the Tesla outlay

If its any use at all for anyone thinking of going full electric or Phev from full Ice.

I switched to a merc A250e Phev in Dec with a 15kw battery. I charge "granny cable" only at home and do a 28-32 mile round trip a day depending on traffic plus other titting about. I charge most nights for a few hours and It costs me roughly £1.30 per day in electric (ovo 7p kwh car only). I've filled up about once every 8 weeks (£40) so far.

Pros - cheap and very quick with engine and battery power.
Cons - engine alone is weak (coming from a 250bhp A5) but great to not have to rely on soley batter (so kind of a pro).

Overall, the ideal would be a Phev with a 30kw battery and I'd never look back.

Looks civicy

39kwh gonna get you to the shops and back, that's all.

Seem quite anxious to clear stocks of these at the moment (lots of cheap lease deals as well), maybe the relatively low range puts people off?

Everytime EV cars come up dinosaurs mention their recent tours to Scotland and lack of charging points. These things charge from a regular domestic 3 pin plug. Not usually hard to find.

My Tesla (M3 SR+ 2020) does roughly 200 miles in the winter, rated for 250 or so. 34k miles odometer. I think you can get that spec Tesla for this price and will probably be happy with it.

So the range on this is quite unfortunately low. Assuming you lose 20% or so, and maybe more for winter. Unless these are more efficient than Tesla.

I do not clock as many miles as many others but I would find mandatory charging for any 120+ mile trip excessive. People say you get used to lower range on EVs but I wouldn’t say it’s that simple. 200ish real miles is just about what I feel comfortable with. If I had more money I’d get something confirmed to hit 300+ real miles. Probably Tesla, I love it. (edited)