The road is a substantial part of life’s journey, both figuratively and literally. Like it or not, the road will eventually hold a significant portion of our lives as we make our way through city and rural streets on a daily basis. Through the traffic of the metropolitan streets and the less-than-apt condition of the national roads of this nation’s capital, the daily drive of any citizen gets stagnant, and fast. To this condition, road trips are aimed to solve. A once-a-month trip down fresh and new roads does much to appease the burden of city-street exhaustion and gives the driver and gives way to an appreciation for what’s around him that can be easily taken for granted and undervalued. This is exactly what the boys behind the 100-percent electric Nissan Leaf addressed as they took the idea of driving through majestically rural roads, gave it steroids, and actually did it.
A road trip of epic proportions – this is what the Nissan Leaf and all of its 100-percent electric powered goodness took on as it drove through over 650 kilometers on the most beautiful rural and coastal drive routes of Europe just on August 25, 2016. The epic journey saw the Nissan Leaf drive through the most majestic roads in Italy, Spain, Germany, Norway, Scotland and France. Rightfully a statement directed at the majority of European drivers who prefer traveling by car that by any other means, with cost of fuel being the only concern, the Nissan Leaf did all of this traveling while showcasing its incredibly low running cost of just about €3 per 100 kilometers, thanks to the Leaf’s 30-kWh battery offering 250-kilometer driving range per charge. Of course the convenience of having around 2,800 quick charge stations across Europe is a big help as well. The practicality, user-friendliness, and fun of driving a zero-emission car has never been as deep set as it is today.