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Originally Posted by ME_Andy
One thing I don't like, as a passenger, is it seems we're always going slow cause it's so silent.
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Might be the ECO mode too. On the 2013 and later models (like my 2013) this is a button on the dash makes the car require a lot of pedal movement to respond. This is great for finely adjusting the "throttle" as you go down the road, but makes the car feel lethargic.
But either way, the silence is something that you get used to. After just two weeks with the Leaf my wife says she now feels that something's wrong when she's in another vehicle and it starts up.
Most of the time I just poke around town in ECO mode and slowly accelerate onto the highway when I leave town. But every once in a while I love to just punch it and feel that silent torque. This car is much faster and powerful than my VW Golf diesel, and yet much more silent. I cannot carry on a conversation in the Golf due to the noise it makes.