When will Nissan Leaf Drivers declare Range Anxiety Dead?

4 times the current LEAF?
So in other words, 240 miles?

Hah. No thanks.

Wrong question. It's not about range - its about recharge time.

No-one would care about range if the car could be recharged in a few minutes.

Even the infrastructure argument is a bit weak, because most EV owners do the vast majority of their charging at home. There really is little need for infrastructure to support daily driving, as most people will have this in their homes. As ranges increase, the biggest challenge will be infrastructure for long-distance travel and charge times.

Tesla has already made great strides to resolve these issues with their Supercharger network and battery packs capable of rapid high-power input, and they making further improvements all the time. I hope that at some point, other manufacturers will adopt their Supercharging, which will further rapidly diminish the infrastructure argument.

I agree with your analysis that there is never enough EV range to satisfy the naysayers.

Naysayers are late adopters, they will get over it, but not until the case for EVs is clear as day. Until then they will concoct a scenario where an EV isn't for them. I suppose openly admiting you are unsure if something is tough to do, easier to create a distraction.

I love my 2015 LEAF SL and have done multiple 150+ mile drives in single days over the past six months. Good planning, LEAF Spy Pro, and experience let me mostly laugh in the face of range anxiety. For me, the tipping point is 200 miles and I'd be thrilled with 300 miles - with that range, I could jump into the car with a full charge and go nearly anywhere I'm likely to go without planning charging stops.

I am leasing the car I have now because I expect that by December 2017 when my lease is up, Nissan, Tesla, Chevy, and probably several other manufacturers will have 250+ mile pure electrics for me to consider buying. We are likely to buy the 2015 LEAF after our lease anyway, as I anticipate it will have a long life as an around-town errands and commute car (unless one of the teenagers crashes it).

I really hate driving gassers now... the noise, the vibration, the smells, the mechanical issues, the expense, and of course, the environmental damage... and I will never buy another gasser. I live in a state where 80% of power is generated from renewables and pay to help make our grid cleaner every month. No gasser gets cleaner over time, so this is a "win" all the way around.

There are quite a few things you're not considering about range. First, I'd challenge you to show me a current LEAF that actually goes 120. I've been driving one for three years and have never even seen the charging notice go that high. If I get 90 miles, I think that's good.

And if you're getting on an expressway, forget even counting on the range predictor to accurately show your range. You can get away with 50 miles on a great day with ac but when the cold hits you're taking a serious risk.

And therein lies the second issue. Charging stations. It doesn't matter how far you can go if, once you get there, you can't recharge in a reasonable amount of time. I would define reasonable by LEAF owner standards as 20-30 minutes. What's really pissed me off lately is that the charging station maps are just plain unreliable. In Tennessee, there are about 40% of the stations on the map that are either not in service or can't be accessed due to membership concerns. The ONLY time I was left on the roadside without any charge was when the chargers at TWO different locations were not in service and also not recorded as such on the map.

So, to answer your question, range anxiety will go away when range can be better calculated by the car and you don't have to fear being stranded somewhere.

Range anxiety will die when there is 1 high speed charge station for every 50 gas stations in the US and when most electrics get 300 miles on a charge. Until then just upping the miles on a single charge won't cut it.

I have a Leaf and a Plug-In Prius. I just charge overnight, like I do with my phone. I have 18 solar PV panels on my roof and so charge only solar into my cars. The Leaf is 100% solar, the Prius gets 11 miles solar and the rest hybrid, for a combined MPG of close to 60. I thus pay back my solar installation in the price of gas. I'm a happy early adopter--it saves me money!
In the end it is like digital photography--there is no turning back, and the tipping point is just around the corner.

EV = Smartphone

Gas car = Beeper + Payphone

Would anyone give up their iPhone or Android and go back to using a hip pager & grubby filthy public payphones?

Now you understand why we EV drivers avoid gas cars like the plague - they simply are far inferior. Smelly, obnoxious, massively inefficient, and ridiculous.

Internal combustion SUCKS! Period.