"I cant commute in a leaf- I would never get ot work or home in a realistic time frame....let alone take the kids to sport/ go shopping...but I would get to drink a lot of coffee so it seems."
Your round trip commute is more than 300 km a day? Ditto for taking kids to sport, going shopping? So you spend 5 hours a day driving at 60km/hr or 3hrs driving at 100km/hr to get to and from work?
