That would be awesome, it takes ages for me car to warm up

You can actually link it to your phone and tell it to have it nice and cosy ready for you.

There are a lot of benefits to electric, this is just the beginning of whats coming.

What cars have you had previously amiga?

comment by Baz tard (U19119)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
So would people hear it coming? Just wonder if they'd have to build in some noise for pedastrian safety?
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Why would you care about child molesters being safe?

I'm by no means a car person melton, my wife drives 95% of the time (I walk to work)

I have had 2 Renaults (last one gave us all sorts of trouble) a Nissan Cherry, 2 fiestas, and settled on Honda (very reliable)

We have got to know the people at Honda really well, and the cars have never given us any trouble, so my wife was keen to carry on with Honda, but now she has tried the Leaf and she Loves it.

We have to take it back Sunday, but we will look into a short lease or maybe second hand, but electric cars are coming on at a pace, and the Model 3 has my eye.

Just trying to convince my wife to wait.

Dude if you insist on jumping in on electric, with the lack of actual data I would buy new. That warranty is gonna be your best friend if *touch wood* anything happens.

To be fair electric is well understood and with so few moving parts already reliable, it's basically a computer on wheels.

I'll check out what's on offer, if I can figure out a deal that makes sense, I might bite, but I was originally going to wait till the end of the year, my wife is the one keen to do a deal now.

Which is ironic as she was originally sceptical about electric.

No its not my friend. It's a new emerging technology with little to no data to back up anything. Most surveys being a few thousand cars. There will be failures and problems, and the fact it is new means it will be expensive to fix with again a few garages outside the dealers being able to do the work. Remember car warranties only apply to the 1st driver.

However, I don't think you need to worry about the leafs battery problem

Simon, the principles behind an electric car have been known and understood for over a hundred years and cant be more simple, the biggest thing holding them back was battery life.

A normal car has 1800 moving parts (dont quote me) the electric car has 17 (5 of which are wheels) maintenance is pretty much non existent, no fluids, no filters, it's only major part is the battery, which is why I'm keen on waiting for the newer one.

If there is a problem I probably will need to take it to Nissan, but there is very little to go wrong.

I do accept this is still early days and electric will only improve, but the biggest thing will be range and battery life, with electric so simple reliability is pretty much guaranteed,

Oh I might add self driving cars really are not that far away, electric making the process a lot more straight forward.

Sure Samsung said that at the start of 2016

Nothing is a given.

I agree on batteries Simon (although no electric car has exploded), as I said the batteries and range are the only major improvements that can be made, the rest will just become more refined.

Oh well couldn't make a deal on a Leaf, I quite like the look of the Ioniq, so will check that out, If not will stick to the original plan and look at the end of the year.

My wife will get over it..... eventually.

Don't worry, I'm sure you can buy her a smaller, cheaper electronic gadget to satisfy her.