Moving up from 2013 Leaf to 2017 Bolt

[ded4hour]

Still catching myself checking available miles on the Bolt. I was down to 35 miles on the Leaf (live in Waco so just charged every day at lunch and evening on my level 2 charger and now with what I seems like unlimited miles I catch myself checking when do I need to head home.

Really enjoying the Bolt, especially the two safety features, indicator on side mirrors for passing cars and alert when backing out of parking spaces.

Also glad prior owner put on a trailer hitch, I now ride ebikes, my wife suggested an 80 year old should not be riding motorcycles. Ride off road trails around Waco so now need lightweight rack.

I am sure I will be checking the forum quite often, going to go post now about charging from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am so I can get off peak rates.

Doyle

 

[Joe Cherra]

She's right you know, I can just picture an 80-year-old trying to upright a Harley after they fell

 

[BillM]

My upgrade path was a used 2011 LEAF to a new 2017 Bolt Premiere which I still own. The Bolt easily outperforms the LEAF in so many categories. I like the blind spot monitoring and range estimate indicator showing much more realistic values. It would be nice to have built in maps, but car play is more or less equivalent and is always up to date. I had many things on the LEAF which were expensive repairs while I’ve had hardly any out of pocket repair costs with the Bolt.

 

[ClarD]

We still have our 2013 LEAF.
The 2023 Bolt EUV is better in every way, except trunk space.

 

[ClarD]

Still catching myself checking available miles on the Bolt.

My wife gets nervous in the Bolt when the remaining miles gets down anywhere near the max that my 2013 LEAF could have.

 

[ded4hour]

She's right you know, I can just picture an 80-year-old trying to upright a Harley after they fell

I had a Triumph Tiger, still pretty heavy but I don't think I ever dropped it. -

 

[ded4hour]

We still have our 2013 LEAF.
The 2023 Bolt EUV is better in every way, except trunk space.

What is you mileage distance when fully charged?

 

[ded4hour]

My upgrade path was a used 2011 LEAF to a new 2017 Bolt Premiere which I still own. The Bolt easily outperforms the LEAF in so many categories. I like the blind spot monitoring and range estimate indicator showing much more realistic values. It would be nice to have built in maps, but car play is more or less equivalent and is always up to date. I had many things on the LEAF which were expensive repairs while I’ve had hardly any out of pocket repair costs with the Bolt.

I had good luck on repairs for the leaf but for sure did not want to replace the batteries.

 

[Joe Cherra]

What is you mileage distance when fully charged?

240 in the summer
160 in the winter
Spring bottom are the transitions months
I like to keep my battery at 80% degradation is eliminated. My bolt is a 2017 with 101,000 mi on it.

 

[ded4hour]

240 in the summer
160 in the winter
Spring bottom are the transitions months
I like to keep my battery at 80% degradation is eliminated. My bolt is a 2017 with 101,000 mi on it.

Sorry, I was curious about what mileage you were getting on your 2011 leaf at this time?

 

[Joe Cherra]

Sorry, I was curious about what mileage you were getting on your 2011 leaf at this time?

 

[Joe Cherra]

I sold it so I could buy the bolt. It was getting around 60 miles. The buyer in Aruba didn't mind

 

[BillM]

When I first got my used 2011 LEAF SV, the year was 2014 and it had about 20K miles with 10 battery dots. An 80% charge would get me about 85 miles at about 3.5 to 4.0 KWH/mile. By the time I sent the LEAF packing with about 32K miles and 8 battery dots I was lucky to get about 62 miles out of an 80% charge.

The LEAF was too soon to market with the too small battery and too fast battery deterioration. Nissan should have waited a few years until they had a better battery.

It has been more than seven years and I am satisfied with the Chevy Bolt. It is the electric vehicle experience I expected to have.