This is an old video but very bias to the volt. You cannot compared a Hybrid with full electric first of all. Handling there is a lot of reviews tha the leaf is better than competitors. And charging you forgot to mention that the NIssan Special Plug charge of 480v charge 80% of the battery in 30mins. nissanqc.com
It took some time getting used to the weird head lights for my part, but now I find the car looking kinda odd and cool at the same time. The space inside for driver and passengers are awesome though, and it is really fun to drive.
With the Volt you still have to do all the maintenance than with a regular car!! That is his biggest fault!! What is the point of having an electric car that still needs to carry a big old fuel burning enging around??
Nissan far exceeds the Volt. It drives better, most people charge it for free and the range of the Volt means that most owners drive it on fuel. Worldwide sales say everything!!! That said, there's only one real market leader. Tesla!!! They are amazing!!!!
I get +85 miles out of my Nissan Leaf any day.  I guess they forgot to mention the 440V Level 3 CHAdeMo chargers available for Nissan Leaf which will charge it 0-80% in 30 minutes.  My Nissan Leaf takes just under 2 hours to charge 40-50 daily miles using a Level 2 – 208V 30Amp charger.  If you drive more than 30-40 miles a day, the Volt will give you the extra miles via it's gas powered engine, but if you drive less than 50-60 miles a day, the Nissan Leaf will give you a better long term savings.  My 2014 Leaf gets to 0-60 mph in less than 8 seconds, not sure why the video says 10 seconds.  Nissan Leaf is a commuter vehicle, city driving, daily driver.  Not a long highway vehicle.  Yes, I have a 2nd gas guzzler which I parked at 12mpg if I needed to go on a trip that the Leaf can't take me due to range.  But so far, I haven't had a need to use it for long distance driving so I have already saved +$550 in gas in just under 2 months and 2,200 miles driven (2200 ÷ 12 mpg x $3.25/gal = $595, and that's assuming that for all those 2,200 miles, for 2 months, the gas price average $3.25, which it is at $3.19 at the pump as I wrote this).  My PAID charge for those 2,200 miles have been under $45 dollars, as I have found many FREE charge stations in my town and I don't mind the driving and spending 30 minutes to get a totally free charge.  Is it an inconvenience to stop for 30 minutes to charge for 2 days of driving?  Of course, but at the end, I have saved over $550 and I am not going to lie, I don't mind the 30 minutes when I see the cash in my bank account.  Happy driving!
This is a really ridiculous video. Sexiness? Recycled materials? Completely absurd. The comparison really falls to range. The Volt is a complete vehicle that can be substituted into a typical American's life, where the Leaf cannot. What do I mean by this? I took my Volt home on a trip from Canton Ohio to Detroit Michigan in 4 hours. Average fuel efficiency was around 45 mpg. Leaf cannot do this.Â
So what? You'd say. Well, so plenty. In a perfect world I would take a fully electric vehicle over the Volt provided it works to the same standards of an ICE vehicle. This includes being able to drive across state lines in an acceptable amount of time. Acceptable being subjective obviously. At this stage neither the Volt nor the Leaf have the range to do this completely on electricity.Â
However the Volt does have an ICE that will allow you to drive to any destination in North America if you can get gas. Gas mileage in ICE mode is not stellar at around 40 mpg, but it is better than most cars its size. What's the end result? Well my wife and I make a regular trip home to Michigan of over 200 miles and on weekdays I make a 22 mile round trip to work and back 5 times a day + lunch breaks. This has given me a total lifetime mpg (Yes the Volt tracks this) of 75 mpg! While it's still dependent on gas it's a full step ahead of the Prius. I know some folks that get upwards of 250 mpg and hardly use gas at all. But I think these folks do what Leaf owners do which is use the electric vehicle for short runs and not use any gas while using a second vehicle with a combustion engine to do the long trips. That's fine as long as you recognize that your total gas usage must be calculated from BOTH vehicles. It does not do the environment any good to have the Leaf do all the short runs while you have a Hemi Diesel Pickup doing long trips and cargo hauls.
What my wife and I have done is the best of both worlds. We own a 2010 Focus along with the Volt. Because of the higher MPG rating of the volt in combustion mode we use that for the long trips and we've relegated the Focus for my wife's short commute. This gives us an extra 5-10 miles per gallon in efficiency which adds up to an extra 2-4 gallons saved round trip. The Volt is a complete vehicle with the idea that if you were to buy just ONE vehicle and you wanted it to be "Green" then that's the Vehicle you'd buy.
I want to point out to the VOLT fans. Comparing it to a  LEAF is faulty. At best you should compare them to a plug in Prius or Focus Plug in. I am always surprised when they do the LEAF vs VOLT comparisons. Conceptually the VOLT wasoriginally aiming for full EV but they fell short and hacked in a hybrid design.
The charging rates have been halved on the LEAFs and the range has been extended to 85 miles. They also now have the quick charging ports that lets you charge up in less than 30 minutes!
They are comparing apples to oranges. I would like to see a sub zero test with the leaf. I would hate to be the person that uses 90% of the leaf's range in the summer to get to work then winter hits at 0 degrees and they get stuck on the freeway behind an accident at night on the interstate with the heater and headlights on going 5 mph they might not make it. I would hope that all electric cars save some power reserves for heater and emergency flashers after the car won't move.
What a load of twaddle the leaf takes the same amount of time to charge up to the capacity of the volt plus it has a rapid charge facility making a 80% charge possible in 30 mins
This is so stupid. She has to dig deep in the manure pile to let the Leaf win. Three strong advantages for the Volt counted as only one point. Recycled materials and no tail pipe counted as a point for the Leaf? Number of vehicles sold count as a point? Unbelievably stupid final score.
Why did I waste my time on this video? Ever heard of fast charging on the LEAF? it takes 30-40 minutes to fully charge, they are everywhere and FREE. Leaf all day over the volt.
Not likely – I don't have any use for training wheels.
Wheeeee! 🙂
This is an old video but very bias to the volt. You cannot compared a Hybrid with full electric first of all. Handling there is a lot of reviews tha the leaf is better than competitors. And charging you forgot to mention that the NIssan Special Plug charge of 480v charge 80% of the battery in 30mins. nissanqc.com
The leaf is still unappealing to me. It looks like a space ship envirowagon. At least the Volt resembles a normal car.
It took some time getting used to the weird head lights for my part, but now I find the car looking kinda odd and cool at the same time. The space inside for driver and passengers are awesome though, and it is really fun to drive.
Ok watchmojo, this is screwed up. The car that you did show was an all electric chevy sonic, not a leaf
Folks this video crazy.
2:22 that is not a fucking nissan
sould not compare charging time, Leaf has got a battery 2 or 3 times as big as the volt. Chargers are about the same i think
Yea wait what is that other white car with a bumper mask?? that's not a leaf or volt…… at 2:20.
Also, the last round "Sales" shouldn't really be considered a round. Its more of an outcome.
the chevy volt is dead.
With the Volt you still have to do all the maintenance than with a regular car!! That is
his biggest fault!! What is the point of having an electric car that still needs to carry a big old fuel burning enging around??
Nissan far exceeds the Volt. It drives better, most people charge it for free and the range of the Volt means that most owners drive it on fuel. Worldwide sales say everything!!! That said, there's only one real market leader. Tesla!!! They are amazing!!!!
You're dinging the Nissan for a longer charger time than the volt? Duh, the Nissan has a 24kWh battery pack while the Volt has a smaller 16kWh pack.
I hate electric cars
I get +85 miles out of my Nissan Leaf any day.  I guess they forgot to mention the 440V Level 3 CHAdeMo chargers available for Nissan Leaf which will charge it 0-80% in 30 minutes.  My Nissan Leaf takes just under 2 hours to charge 40-50 daily miles using a Level 2 – 208V 30Amp charger.  If you drive more than 30-40 miles a day, the Volt will give you the extra miles via it's gas powered engine, but if you drive less than 50-60 miles a day, the Nissan Leaf will give you a better long term savings.  My 2014 Leaf gets to 0-60 mph in less than 8 seconds, not sure why the video says 10 seconds.  Nissan Leaf is a commuter vehicle, city driving, daily driver.  Not a long highway vehicle.  Yes, I have a 2nd gas guzzler which I parked at 12mpg if I needed to go on a trip that the Leaf can't take me due to range.  But so far, I haven't had a need to use it for long distance driving so I have already saved +$550 in gas in just under 2 months and 2,200 miles driven (2200 ÷ 12 mpg x $3.25/gal = $595, and that's assuming that for all those 2,200 miles, for 2 months, the gas price average $3.25, which it is at $3.19 at the pump as I wrote this).  My PAID charge for those 2,200 miles have been under $45 dollars, as I have found many FREE charge stations in my town and I don't mind the driving and spending 30 minutes to get a totally free charge.  Is it an inconvenience to stop for 30 minutes to charge for 2 days of driving?  Of course, but at the end, I have saved over $550 and I am not going to lie, I don't mind the 30 minutes when I see the cash in my bank account.  Happy driving!
Nope. The Model S is the first realistic (and exciting) Electric car.
My leaf goes from zero to 60 in 7 sec flat! Just tried it last night.
This is a really ridiculous video. Sexiness? Recycled materials? Completely absurd. The comparison really falls to range. The Volt is a complete vehicle that can be substituted into a typical American's life, where the Leaf cannot. What do I mean by this? I took my Volt home on a trip from Canton Ohio to Detroit Michigan in 4 hours. Average fuel efficiency was around 45 mpg. Leaf cannot do this.Â
So what? You'd say. Well, so plenty. In a perfect world I would take a fully electric vehicle over the Volt provided it works to the same standards of an ICE vehicle. This includes being able to drive across state lines in an acceptable amount of time. Acceptable being subjective obviously. At this stage neither the Volt nor the Leaf have the range to do this completely on electricity.Â
However the Volt does have an ICE that will allow you to drive to any destination in North America if you can get gas. Gas mileage in ICE mode is not stellar at around 40 mpg, but it is better than most cars its size. What's the end result? Well my wife and I make a regular trip home to Michigan of over 200 miles and on weekdays I make a 22 mile round trip to work and back 5 times a day + lunch breaks. This has given me a total lifetime mpg (Yes the Volt tracks this) of 75 mpg! While it's still dependent on gas it's a full step ahead of the Prius. I know some folks that get upwards of 250 mpg and hardly use gas at all. But I think these folks do what Leaf owners do which is use the electric vehicle for short runs and not use any gas while using a second vehicle with a combustion engine to do the long trips. That's fine as long as you recognize that your total gas usage must be calculated from BOTH vehicles. It does not do the environment any good to have the Leaf do all the short runs while you have a Hemi Diesel Pickup doing long trips and cargo hauls.
What my wife and I have done is the best of both worlds. We own a 2010 Focus along with the Volt. Because of the higher MPG rating of the volt in combustion mode we use that for the long trips and we've relegated the Focus for my wife's short commute. This gives us an extra 5-10 miles per gallon in efficiency which adds up to an extra 2-4 gallons saved round trip. The Volt is a complete vehicle with the idea that if you were to buy just ONE vehicle and you wanted it to be "Green" then that's the Vehicle you'd buy.
I want to point out to the VOLT fans. Comparing it to a  LEAF is faulty. At best you should compare them to a plug in Prius or Focus Plug in. I am always surprised when they do the LEAF vs VOLT comparisons. Conceptually the VOLT wasoriginally aiming for full EV but they fell short and hacked in a hybrid design.
The charging rates have been halved on the LEAFs and the range has been extended to 85 miles. They also now have the quick charging ports that lets you charge up in less than 30 minutes!
They are comparing apples to oranges. I would like to see a sub zero test with the leaf. I would hate to be the person that uses 90% of the leaf's range in the summer to get to work then winter hits at 0 degrees and they get stuck on the freeway behind an accident at night on the interstate with the heater and headlights on going 5 mph they might not make it. I would hope that all electric cars save some power reserves for heater and emergency flashers after the car won't move.
So… a plug-in hybrid is being compared to a completely electric vehicle? Not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison
What a load of twaddle the leaf takes the same amount of time to charge up to the capacity of the volt plus it has a rapid charge facility making a 80% charge possible in 30 mins
This is so stupid. She has to dig deep in the manure pile to let the Leaf win. Three strong advantages for the Volt counted as only one point. Recycled materials and no tail pipe counted as a point for the Leaf? Number of vehicles sold count as a point? Unbelievably stupid final score.
Why did I waste my time on this video? Ever heard of fast charging on the LEAF? it takes 30-40 minutes to fully charge, they are everywhere and FREE. Leaf all day over the volt.
and the bolt is known for catching on fie
Finally, a true comparison. Apple(plug-in) with apple(plug-in). Thank you.
The. ONE VIDEO YOU GET RIGHT IS ABOUT TWO ELECTRIC CARS THAT NOBODY EXCEPT GEEKS BUY
Leaf… ugliest lookng POS>