Spent 4 months in Durban driving a Nissan Leaf. What a pleasure. Totally silent, amazing accelleration. At the end of a day driving around, I had covered 95km. Plugging it in to the household supply (single phase 230 volts) showed that it reached 100% charge in just over 4 hours
It is a small car and with 4 up the performance drops off considerably. The accelleration is sluggish but up hills it is acceptable. There is a regular run from Durban (a the coast) to Pietermaritzburg (600m) which is only 67km but on a highway all the time. The Leaf could easily manage 130km/hr all the way and had by then used 42% of its power. Allowing it to rest for 30 mins brought the power back to 70% and on the way back down to Durban it only used 16%, going at the same speed until the highway ended
Honda SA say there are no plans yet for a Jazz electric. But I see that the local Opel dealer has an Opel electric car on display and is taking down names