I have been driving the Nissan Leaf for about two days now and suffered my first range anxiety trying to get across town. I went to visit my father in law and estimated that it would take 40 km to get there and back. When we left my father in laws house we need to make a quick stop at my wife's grandfathers nursing home. This took me out of the estimated range by about 5 km that was just at the limit of us not making it home. I went on Google maps and tried to figure out the correct range from where we were to our house. The trip would be out of range. We got in the car and I set it to drive in eco mode. I made sure to go at a lower speed on express way and prayed that I would make it down the hill and gain some extra energy to get off out our exit and at least be withing waling distance to our house. As luck would have it I did everything right and gained the extra energy we would need to make it home. As I got closer to the drive way the car was pretty much yelling at me to get to a charging station as soon as possible. Lesson learned plan out all trips and make sure to have at least a good amount of extra range just in case. I also learned that driving in eco mode is cool and it extends the range most of the time to get everything you can out of driving your Nissan Leaf electric car.
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