What Happens When My CHEAP Leaf DIES? | Used EV Range Test! - Shot On iPhone 13

Thank you all for watching! Did the Leaf go further than you expected?

What a brilliant presenter!. Concise, friendly, entertaining, clear as crystal. Not the usual cocky arrogant clever stuff some presenters feel obliged to do.

Just watched a bloke drive a 9 year old car, 66 miles. Working from home is great.....

Proper consumer advice and proper testing! Love it, Rory is absolutely brilliant at his videos, he does them all properly.

Thanks to people like you Rory, Top Gear is now something of an insignificance. There are so many vloggers doing great videos that YouTube (and this channel in particular) have become the ‘Go To’ place to view cars and tests that help us make decisions on what we should do with our ‘hard earned’. More power to you Sir!

Without doubt the most interesting EV video I have ever watched. Usually it's a reviewer in something that comes in entry level £40K, waxing lyrical about how good it is (headline news, a car costing £40K damn well SHOULD be good), with some boring facts about rear leg room, USB charging points and boot space. Give me a slightly tired Nissan Leaf any day! Now we're talking!😁

Well done Rory. A cheap electric car for every day use. If you want to, you can get the battery tested to see if any cells can be replaced and improve the range. The big difference with this car to modern EVs is the battery management and cooling systems. The Leaf is 10 year old technology, and air cooled, so we'd expect that degradation in capacity to be much less in cars on sale now with water cooled batteries and intelligent management systems. Also in the early days of EVs owners charged their cars too often which we now know hurts the battery life. Looking forward to seeing what you are going to do with the car.

For a £3000 ten-year-old car, 60 miles is brilliant, especially considering an EV Smart Car does that and that costs £25,000.

I saw on YouTube a group of guys called Nissan an found out the at 35mph is the optimal speed for maximum range. They took a 24kw leaf on a closed 7-9 mile track and held it at 35mph and achieved 135 miles on it before it was 100% dead. You could try the same type of test with a reduced capacity battery and see what it would do. Just a thought.

Rory you’re an amazing reviewer. I can’t say it enough. Auto Trader owes you more $ than they can pay.

So speaking from experience from a Nissan Leaf owner, I have found a good rule of thumb how to use the heat and AC for better range. I use the low setting on the heated seats, the lowest setting on the fan for either heat or AC and if you have cold hands like me the heated steering wheel adds enough comfort for warmth. this seems to be the best way to maximize your range in colder weather driving a 2107 Leaf, 2019 Leaf and a 2019 Leaf+, all vehicles I've owned and currently own.

The Nissan leafs are notorious for the worst battery degradation because they have no thermal management. New EVs with thermal management seem to lose around 10-15% max. It's great progress in a short space of time.

Man the amount of angles he got for just filming on his iPhone was great

In 2021, most new EVs will keep 90% of their battery capacity even after 1000 charge cycles. For an EV with 250 miles of range, that means 250,000 miles. Basically the batteries will last much longer than most combustion cars.

How did Rory get home? Is he still there? Can someone who knows where he is check on him?

Now you need to find that IONIC5 driver and get them to give you a boost from their V2L adaptor.

Great to see a £3000 car running for next to nothing, wake up to 60 miles a day if you have a home charger. No car tax, Hartley any maintenance costs. Absolutely brilliant. Great video.

Rory had me well and truly 'going' there... I was fuming with the expectation that he was going to throw in the towel and cheat me out of the climatic battery death moment😲.... What a tease he is🙄 Rory is one of the best reviewers out there, professionally delivering real-world honest answers to questions that viewers want to know. Rock-on Rory👍

Fully agree with you, driving an old Zoe with about the same range myself. It is totally fine for what I do and these cars are really affordable. :)

Great video and interesting to see a review about second-hand EVs rather than the latest super expensive model to hit the market. When you started this series you were looking for the cheapest (proper) EV on Autotrader which meant the Leaf or the Zoe. Both these models have stood the test of time well and various strengths & weaknesses have emerged for each. Sadly range degradation has proved more of a weakness for the 24kWh Leaf, partly as it relies on passive air cooling of the battery, leading to increased loss of capacity (66% of original after 9 years in your example). However, as another commenter points out, it’s possible to replace the battery or even individual cells within the battery, but I don’t know how realistic this would be, given the value of the car. The Zoe did a little better in this respect having fan(s) to actively manage battery temperature, leading to typically 85-98% of original capacity (according to various EV forums) in similarly aged vehicles (capacity is not displayed on the dashboard of the Zoe, but requires an OBD dongle to interrogate the battery management system). Certainly my old 22kWh Zoe will still do over 90 miles when in Eco mode. The take home from this is it is possible to purchase an EV on a budget, but if range is a worry, try to discover the current state of health (SOH – capacity) of the battery in any prospective purchase.