Nissan LEAF to come with stand-by ‘Real’ car

The Nissan Leaf - buyers could be getting free ICE loan cars

It’s being reported that Nissan are planning on offering free petrol or diesel cars to all buyers of the electric Nissan LEAF to assuage ‘Range Anxiety’.

Oh, dear. We did laugh. And not just at the irony, but more at the fact that we don’t think Nissan realise what they’re saying.

It’s being reported that Nissan are intending offering buyers of the Nissan LEAF electric car a free ICE (internal combustion engine) loan car if they have to travel very far. As in further than the LEAF can realistically go and still have enough juice in its batteries to get you home again. Which on a cold dark day with lights and heaters or a blazing summer day with AirCon on is probably less than 30 miles.

Nissan seem to be saying that this is to relieve LEAF owners of ‘Range Anxiety’, which is the malaise that EV makers think afflicts potential buyers of their milk floats. We prefer to call it ‘Realism’. It’s the knowledge that whatever range an EV maker quotes you really need to take off a third off to take account of the real world. And then halve it – because you have to get home again.

This little gem of information comes from The Detrot Bureau, which reports that this whole scenario is under consideration for LEAF marketing in the UK. There seems to be no concept of this plan proving just how useless electric cars are apart from within confined urban areas. Nissan truly seem to believe that so-called ‘Range Anxiety’ exists.

Poor, deluded electric car makers.