Where do they live? One thing I'm curious about is owner experiences in cold winter climates.
One Ottawa, Ontario owner is blogging (occasionally) about his family's Leaf.
So far, range estimates seem to be running -1% for every degree C lower than 20 C (68 F), not counting heating/defrosting requirements. So in -2C (28 F) temps he was working with a decrease of range around -22% for ambient temperature change, minus another ~15% for heater/defrosting use.
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So The initial 137 Km (85 mi) range minus 37% quickly became an 86 Km (53 mi) range.
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He hasn't posted since it got
really cold (-20C / -2F lately ), though he points out that at that temperature, the car's battery warmer kicks in when charging.
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