The new leafs are in a weird bit of the market, they are now priced the same as SUVs but you get a hatchback for the money. Nissan either need to up their game to make them a premium product that a hatchback in that price range needs to be, or reduce the price to come in under the better equipped SUVs. We did consider a bigger battery second hand leaf but once you hit the 40kWh leafs you're bordering on atto 3 or mg zs money and I think it would be worth finding the bit extra to get the 50kwh brand new with warranty battery. Nissan could easily transition to lfp cooled batteries, if a small outfit in Christchurch can manage to do it a global player like Nissan should be able to.

It is good there's tinkerer's and companies like EVs enhanced working on the leaf so they don't just become junk when the batteries to degrade, there is still life in them beyond the battery pack. Ours are good for now but I'm definitely watching the pricing on the 16 blade battery, a 70kwh pack would be very tempting. I'd also like to see if a bigger ac charger can be had and installed easily as I get free charging at work, we have to share 1 charge point though and when there's a few people charging for an hour at 3.3kw barely seems worth the effort as it wouldn't even cover the journey one way. Other than those minor things that I honestly can live with to save a fortune on petrol the cars we liked it enough to buy a second one.