Nissan LEAF Review: Technology in an Electric Car

Nissan LEAF 2016 Review: Technology in an Electric Car

So this is the Nissan Leaf. It’s the standard edition loan car here and with that you get a heated steering wheel agency, heated seat, heated door mirrors, surround sound system in this car with 7 speakers and Park Assist for around view monitor.

About 17 inch alloy wheels and you got LED headlight. Here is the key and we’ve got keyless entry so you don’t have to put the key in anything, you just put it down here, press the start button and the car is ready to go. So we’ve got heated steering wheel here with all these controls on the wheel itself. We got a touch interface over here.

Now connect to my phone into it, let’s check out this pro surround sound system. We do love music. I connected the car to my phone via the simple interface on here, turn the volume up and check out the sound quality – pretty solid.

For the map concern – for electric cars, you need to be able to charge your car. So the map is fully equipped with telling you all the data of charging station wherever they are. There may be at your local or at someone’s house. Tell you how the charging stations are running low on battery. So it’s being a fully electric car. I was really intrigued to find out what the range, how long we’ve gonna be before we get to charge the car.

The Nissan Leaf is 100% electric car, and they said that you are gonna get about 155 miles from 100% to 0% on the battery – realistically about 120 miles.

Now it has a feature called B mode, and if you put in on B mode, it generates electricity and charges the battery when you brake. Not quite sure how it does that but that’s fairly insane.

The main thing with electric cars is how do you charge this thing. In the front, you can open with the button on the dashboard or with the key. And this thing is says the charge will give you 8% in half an hour. However to charge from 0 to 100 in your home location or in a home environment it’s going to take about 12 hours.

The Nissan Leaf is kind of intelligent if you tell it where you’re going or you are planning a route, it will make sure that if you are going to run out of charge, it will direct you to a charging station or it’ll let you know that I’m back home with X amount of battery left in the tank. That’s really intelligent.

It’s even more intelligent if you have the air conditioning on in the car or you using any of the facilities, it will tell you how much battery is actually training to help you narrow down what is using all of your precious charge and all of your miles.

Speaking with the Leaf can travel 95 miles an hours, so let’s get this electric car for a test driving. I want you guys to listen for any engine noise. All you can hear is wind noise. It’s no engine noise at all and it’s quite peaceful.

Now I put the car into B mode. What this is doing is whenever I put my foot on the brake, it will generating a little bit power for the batteries – a little bit more eco friendly. Now I put the car back into normal mode, obviously you will get the better throttle response.

A few of thing to know as well as the technology on this car it will send you a text message on your phone to notify you that the car has some charging power which is great seat to babysit on your car. And it’s also great security perspective as well as.

It’ll also email you to let you know when it’s fully charged.

So this is Nissan Leaf – the first 100% full electric car for massive market.