Besides the new vibrant colours, the Nissan Leaf 2023 gets a full black aero front grille with an updated Nissan Logo, grey-accent diffuser, revised bumper and a new redesigned aero spoiler at the rear. The 17″ wheels are updated with a new dual-tone design and there are no more extra “Zero Emission” badges or blue accents to make it obvious that this is an EV.
Another new update is its digital rear mirror which provides a live video feed from the camera mounted underneath the rear spoiler. The video feed quality is decent and this can be useful if you have tall passengers blocking the rearview. You can switch between the mirror and the rear camera by toggling the tab at the bottom of the mirror.
In the safety department, the new Leaf gets an additional Intelligent Lane Intervention and Intelligent lane departure warning which lets you know if you are drifting to another lane without using signal indicators. There are also six airbags, autonomous emergency braking and vehicle dynamic control as standard.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t come with ProPILOT Assist which offers adaptive cruise control. Instead, it still comes with passive cruise control which you can enable from the steering wheel. Another new addition is auto high beam assist. Although the battery capacity remains unchanged, Nissan has updated the AC charging port from Type-1 to Type-2, which is widely accepted at a majority of AC charging points nationwide.However, the AC port still pushes a rather slow 6.
The Nissan Leaf 2023 still comes with a 40kWh battery with 311km range (NEDC). In the real world, you could be looking at less than 250km on a single charge. It supports 50kW DC Charging but it uses Japan standard CHAdeMO port which is harder to find compared to the CCS2 port.