Nissan launches electric-car guide for World EV Day

How can we help these people?

Nissan has had an idea, and it’s actually a pretty simple one. To coincide with World EV Day, the Japanese car maker has produced a five-part series of videos, titled EV? Easy!

All five videos draw on Nissan’s lengthy experience with electric cars — after all, the 2010 Nissan Leaf was one of the first ever car makers to put an EVs on sale.

What do these videos cover?

The first one is called Going Electric? Easy! It looks at how an electric car is different to a traditional combustion-engined model, and how it might feel different to drive when you’re making the switch from one to the other. 

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What else?

The second video, Battery Systems? Easy! looks at how the battery of an electric car is made, how it works and how things like temperature and charging affect it. It also explains how batteries can be reused or recycled at the end of their lives. 

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Surely these videos cover range?

You bet they do. The third in the series, Range & Efficiency? Easy! looks at precisely that, including the all-important point that range can be influenced by factors including speed, outside temperature, road conditions and driving style, but equally that you can claw back range through regenerative braking.

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And charging?

Of course, the fourth video — Charging Systems? Easy! — is about that, explaining the difference between AC and DC charging, the various speeds and power outputs that charging works at, the difference between home and public charging, and how a built-in route planner — which you can find in Nissan’s electric cars — can help you plot an easier course on a long journey.

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What’s the final video about?

The last video in the series — Energy Sharing? Easy! — covers an aspect that many electric drivers are only just starting to find out about, which is how you can use an electric car as a mobile power source, using Vehicle-to-Load (V2L), Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) charging setups to provide power for other devices, or to run your home in the event of a power cut, or even to sell spare battery capacity to the national grid.

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