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My Leaf has covered 5,300 miles of my last 6,400 miles.
Before you count that as a vote against, bear in mind 850 of my ICE miles were in a single trip in a loaded Sprinter (far away from being EV at this point), about 100 of the rest was local towing (no hitch on Leaf YET!), 1! 65 mile trip that the Leaf wasn't charged for (poor planning on my part), 2 trips because I had loaned the Leaf to friends, and the remainder has been I guess I should take a short trip in the TDI to get the fluids up to temperature just because.

I absolutely LOVE the car and everyone that has been in it has been amazed. Highly recommended.

You may consider asking good friends if they would consider swapping cars if you need to go somewhere out of range, I've had several people offer me rather nice cars if I left them my Leaf to use.

As far as modifications, I really haven't done anything yet.
I have 2 Open EVSE's in my life, in addition to a EVSE upgraded stock cable. In retrospect I should have built an additional open EVSE (the 120/240 version) and sold the stock 110volt EVSE cost wise I would have ended up cheaper, programming wouldn't have involved a paperclip, it would be 24 amps VS 20 amps at 240 AND I could do 24 amps on 120 volts for those goofy high amp 120 volt RV plugs.

I decided that I wanted the heat pump, and the 6.6KW charger and I definitely recommend them, winter range sucks as it is, no reason to make it worse with the PTC always being on. Your schedule really dictates the need for 6.6 VS 3.3 KW charger, I sure do like being able to pick up meaningful range in a half hour but I would probably just drive the TDI more without it.