![]() It also displays Nissan's Carwings telematics application, which wasn't up and running on our car. There's a Zero Emission button next to the central display that brings up screens showing energy usage of the engine, the climate control, and other systems energy economy in miles/kilowatt-hour, instantaneously and over time as well as nav screen displays to show remaining range as a circle around your present location or your destination (this screen can be summoned by a steering wheel button on the left spoke), and charging stations. The regen circles don't become available until the battery's partially depleted. These power and regen lights are each ringed with one or two circles: Two indicates that level of power or regen is available, while one circle means it's not. The tree starts growing each time you key off, as I discovered after a brief stop about 35 miles into the journey.Īs you accelerate or brake the Leaf a string of lights illuminate in the lower display. Still, I managed to grow the full "tree" on the instrument cluster's upper display. ![]() Throughout the drive I maintained the speed limit and accelerated gently, but not hypermilingly so. The single-speed transmission makes the electric motor's noise difficult to distinguish from tire and road noise, but the overall din is lower than in most cars (even the Volt), so you can more easily hear wind noise and other sounds. At an indicated 50 miles of remaining range I switched to normal "D" mode, dropping the indicated range to 45 miles. The next 22 miles doubled back eastbound on surface streets with a 45-mph top speed and stop lights every half-mile. ![]() A bit later it hit 82 degrees as measured on our digital thermometer at around head height, prompting me to lower the heater setting. I headed west into the sun for 13 miles of 70-mph freeway cruising, and the cabin temperature reached 75 degrees within 10 minutes.
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