Poor Nissan Leaf. Being first by no means introduced it success. Being low-cost with first rate vary at a time when only a few different electrical vehicles are, additionally, hasn’t paid off. EVs have crossed over into the type of mundane dialog you may have with prolonged household over Thanksgiving dinner, and nonetheless no one will give the Leaf any rattling consideration. Phrase on the road is it’ll be out of Nissan’s showrooms by mid-decade. Which means the 2024 model-year Leaf might be the final one, or possibly second-to-last.

On Tuesday, Nissan formally introduced what’s new for the 2024 Leaf: nothing. Nothing regarding the automotive, not less than. The bottom Leaf S is $100 dearer than it was, now $29,235 together with vacation spot. It presents 149 miles on a full cost. The one different trim is the SV Plus, which prices $37,285 — $150 greater than final yr’s. That one’s good for 212 miles.

The Leaf’s downside isn’t that it sucks, as a result of it doesn’t. It’s that even in a section with only a few choices, Nissan’s providing has by no means been the perfect. Individuals are lastly waking as much as the Bolt in time for GM to kill it, and it’s nearly $2,000 cheaper out of the gate, with much better vary. The Volkswagen ID.4, whereas no one’s favourite EV, is not less than a form most People would favor and begins $3,000 increased. Identical to the Leaf, each vehicles carry the complete federal tax credit score — as will the sub-$30,000 Chevy Equinox EV when it begins making deliveries within the coming weeks.

It hasn’t been simple for the Leaf, and it’s solely certain to get tougher. It’s nonetheless the one battery-electric automotive in the marketplace in the present day I can consider with a CHAdeMO port, which limits each the forms of public terminals it might use and in addition the utmost charging velocity it helps. Nissan’s additionally insisted on counting on air alone to chill the battery, which may critically impression vary years down the road, as I found after I spoke to a couple house owners of first-gen Leafs and different early mass-market EVs about their vehicles in 2021.

Nissan has thrown its full assist behind the Ariya now, which appears sensible. It’s additionally not essentially the most stirring EV in its section, and the corporate’s assembly some headwinds making an attempt to churn out sufficient of them, however the Ariya remains to be an electrical SUV with a beginning worth beneath that of the common new automotive. It’ll solely additional fall in worth as soon as Nissan finds a method to deliver manufacturing stateside and get in on these incentives.

Within the meantime, there’s nonetheless the Leaf, for now. You probably have one thing vital to inform it, do it now and not earlier than you lose your probability.