Nissan Leaf review

Nissan has freshly released prices, and the good news is it immediately qualifies for the UK government Electric Car Grant. As you might hope for something British built, we suppose. Apply the £3,750 discount and you're looking at a starting price of £32,249. 

The range stepladder begins at Engage, the most efficient because of its 195/60 18 tyres. Then Engage+ (£33,149) adds more advanced ADAS and the Google connectivity, both of which are calming if you make long trips. 

Advance (£34,249) is to a degree a cosmetics pack with the option of the light interior, and range-sucking 235/45 19 tyres. Evolve (£36,249) is the top step, as per these photos.

You can take power to an external load (V2L), and vehicle to grid (V2G) is also specced. That's a bit of a holy grail, lots of manufacturers talking about it and few-to-none doing it as the Leaf launches. But Nissan does have a V2G home charger certified for the Ariya, so it's ready to go.

That could save you big money: charge at cheap overnight rates and sell to the grid at higher daytime prices. Electricity suppliers like Octopus have tariffs for that.

The whole car is warranted for three years and 60,000 miles, extendable if you pay. The battery gets eight/100k.