While I was showing off the vehicle at a party a Nissan Leaf owner said that she gets only about 60 miles of range in a car advertised as having 100 miles: “I had to stop and charge three times going down to Providence in the winter,” she explained. (Each charge takes 30 minutes; it is roughly 50 miles one-way from Boston to Providence.)

While I'm fairly certain that this part was a little tongue in cheek.... from my experience, the leaf gets about 100 miles per charge if you're driving in town. 90 if you have the AC on, and 80 if you have the heat blasting. If you get on the highway - your mileage goes down to about 75... maybe 70 if you have the heat on AND on the freeway. It's probably 70 in the worst of situations. Maybe if you were loaded with five people and a boot full of stuff in the winter with the heat blasting and going 80mph... you might have a 60 mile range.