There is a compelling argument for a commuter car - if my commute wasn't ~100 miles and/or there was a charging point at work (there are zero charging points at work - heck, there isn't even a guaranteed parking spot - or any charging points in the town the office is in), I might consider one..
I am rather spoilt for this, I zero'd my trip other day. It's 60 miles from office, via car share buddy, home, then do a repeat on way back to office.
So even a 'low spec' 24Kwh Leaf would do the job. (I'd go for Technica trim though)
I do rather like the e-golf, ev's generally I find relaxing to commute in, they are also very nippy, much more than the 0-60 would suggest. Mine does 0-60 in 9.3s but is as quick 0-30 as the equivalent golf GTI. The flip side of that is the 60-90 mph performance is below the equivalent bhp diesel car.
A 60 mile round trip will be fine in all but significantly below zero temps, or until the car is significantly aged. Looking online, the car should be around 175k before you drop below 60 miles of range - even then, if you're charging at home and work - it shouldn't be an issue. My e-golf now has 12,000 miles on it (5 months' use
), the battery in that is 35.8kwh and I get a real world 125-130 miles, that's AC on, or heater and heated seats on, driving at normal speeds (no slipstreaming lorries
).
One thing to note on some leafs, and that one you linked in particular, is that it only has a 3.3kw inverter on board. This means that there is almost no benefit to having a home wall box installed to charge it. The car will suck 3kw ish, through a normal 3 pin plug and will go 0-100% charged in 10-11hrs. The only way you can charge it faster is at a DC rapid charger. Leafs use the Chademo standard, which gives a max of about 50kw and would fully charge you in about 20mins. If you install the Zap Map app, you will be able to see where these are - there are loads inside the M25.
On cost, my golf is costing me about £25 pw more than my s80 - I think, and that assumes no out-of-routine maintenance bills and that I do all the work myself.