There is also a little solar panel at the rear of the roof to trickle-charge the battery to power accessories. You can use your smartphone to remotely access the car�s HVAC and charging functions. The center display will come on when you're low on electricity, show you where you can charge, and how many and what types of outlets are available at each location. The Leaf will connect to a global center for data services, entertainment, and support. This one is sort of an apples-and-oranges situation, especially since we can't compare MPG, as only the VOLT uses any G.� I have to give the Volt an 8, because a range extender that can always run on gas without ever being plugged in is going to speak to a lot of nervous early EV buyers.īoth of these cars are pioneering a new era of connected vehicles. �But the Volt is a range extender, meaning a little gas engine fires up when your battery gets low and keeps generating electricity so you can keep driving as long as you have gas in the car. There is no option yet for a superfast 500V charger like the Leaf. The Volt goes only 40 miles on a charge, and charging the battery from out will take 6 hours on a 110-volt outlet or about 3 hours on a 220-volt outlet. Those are very long charge times and high-current chargers will be scarce as hen�s teeth for a year, but the Leaf has admirable 100-mile range that could cover the average commute for 3-4 days. Charging from flat-out on a 110-volt outlet takes about 20 hours on a 220-volt outlet about 8 hours and from a rare, but available, 500-volt charger, you'll get 80 percent charge in 30 minutes, but this will erode battery life faster. After that, you need to plug it in or it won�t move- this is a pure EV, not a plug-in hybrid or a range-extended EV. The Leaf is purported to go 100 miles on a charge. It�s not nearly as saucy as the concept Volt that General Motors was showing around forever, so the company shot itself in the foot there, but overall, I have to give the Volt a 7 on looks. But the aggressive face and rather audacious backlight and tail lamps keep things from being vanilla, and like the Leaf, I think folks will know a Volt when they see one. The Volt is much more conventional-looking, like a modified Malibu. So, I give the Leaf a 6 in the looks department it's not pretty, but not horrid, and you won�t mistake it for something else. But in the era of the Prius, this kind of look also says modern and progressive. It has sort of a catfish mouth and a dumpy rump. The Leaf has a quirky cuteness-like the sort of Japanese cars the Japanese sell only in Japan. Let�s face it: I don�t care if a car runs on perpetual motion, a nuclear reactor, or unicorn dung-aka �clean coal." If it�s fugly, it won�t sell. I�m going to score these guys very simply: each car gets between 0 and 10 on each of four categories. Well, let's see what we can tell from the preannounced specs, the looks, and the time we've spent with prototypes of both cars in person. We get a lot of people asking us which one is going to be the hot ride for the green crowd.
Hey everyone, it's time for a sort of special prizefight, this time between two tech products you can�t even buy yet: the Nissan Leaf versus the Chevy Volt.
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