Well yes and no. A poor charge rate on a small battery means it will probably charge, from a SoC perspective, as fast as a bigger vehicle with a faster charge rate…but it’s adding effective range more slowly - and considering you need to stop more frequently, it compounds the disadvantage.
Japanese companies are largely still in the hydrogen camp
You’re forgetting the small 46kW charge rate - so you’re not recharging very fast when you inevitably don’t get very far.
It’s such a cute, quirky, utterly perplexing car.
Keep in mind that it’s not just someone driving the car hard - it’s many people who are unfamiliar with the car driving it hard (I assume it’s not a passenger experience?).
I would stay away, but it’s up to you as to what your risk appetite is. If you plan to keep it a few years then trade it in, and you can get it with a worthwhile warranty - you might be alright…but it’s more of a risk than I would be comfortable with, personally.
Opel/Vauxhall Insignia, is that you?
Doug’a great, but even he has a maximum threshold for how much he’ll bash something. His brand is a business at the end of the day.
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Whether it’s true or not isn’t really important. Someone working for a specific brand having access to a vehicle from that brand is common, so it doesn’t really say anything about purchase intention or experience.
A random person you meet has the vehicle and tells you that it’s great/awful is probably more useful than anything the people trying to sell you a vehicle will tell you.