4 July 2016
We were so excited to receive our Gen2 Leaf in January and I completely forgot to post about it. lol. We love it and getting an electric car is definitely the right thing to do. Everything lined up: great deal from the wonderful Autolinks Cars in Grey Lynn, Auckland (https://www.facebook.com/autolinkcars/timeline); time for Alan to research and match our needs and wants to price and availability. It felt good to select a car, wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive off the boat, and know that Autolinks are so concerned that we still felt the choice was right, that even up to the day of collection, we could still have changed our mind. I have never met a car Dealer Owner like Henry and staff, Sarah. We went through a learning curve, almost like learning to drive a car all over again, because you need to think about our driving range (estimate only of km “in the tank”) and the route. Folk talk about ‘range anxiety’ but we quickly got over that. Long trips definitely need a 100% charge and carefully plotted route. An 80% charge is enough for most of our usage and we reckon it costs us $2.50 for 100km of travel! We can also now advertise that any Guest staying here, with their own electric car, can re-charge for FREE!