Nissan Leaf 30kWh Tekna car review – ‘It’s relaxing’

With a top speed just shy of 90mph, the Leaf doesn't have many pretensions in the boy racer department

Often, when I think an idea won't catch on (the mobile phone, the breakfast bar), it's just because I haven't thought about it as hard as its inventor has; I fear this may be true of the Nissan Leaf. It struck me as inherently preposterous to design a car that has to be delivered on the back of another car, because no one can be sure it'll make the journey on electricity alone.

While we're here, why eschew the option of a petrol hybrid? Why not throw in some petrol so that the superbly organised can bask in their virtue, having remembered to charge it for eight (or 16) hours the night before (depending on the voltage), while the feckless can be allowed to sometimes forget?