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Why not? We bought our first leaf, a 2011 model, for $4,900 last year. the range is down "2 bars", so it's legit only a ~70 mile car, but it absorbed a ton of
by schmookeeg 6y ago
Why not? We bought our first leaf, a 2011 model, for $4,900 last year.
the range is down "2 bars", so it's legit only a ~70 mile car, but it absorbed a ton of our city trips and did great.
Then Oregon passed a $2,500 incentive on used cars, so we sold it for $7,500 and moved up to an i3.
Our local EV used car dealer, Platt Auto in Portland, has a few 2016+ leafs for $8900, so I bet his two older ones listed at $Call could be had sub-8K.
- paxys 6y agoWell I'd personally consider a 70 mile range to be a deal breaker.
- aeternum 6y agoWell then you're going to be even less happy with the Kandi's 59 mile range (new) and are still better off with the Leaf.
- dexterdog 6y agoIf it's not your main car it would rarely be a problem for me. I have a Prius Prime with 29 miles of electric range. I've only out gas in it once since Covid started. With 70 I would not have needed gas this year.
- TheSmiddy 6y agohow often do you drive more than 50 miles in a day? If it's rare enough there's a point where it's financially worth driving electric daily and then renting an SUV or whatever for your camping trips.
- bluGill 6y agoThe cost of renting a small car (SUVs are double the cost) with more range (including the ability to refuel quickly anywhere) is more than expensive enough to make buying a gas car/SUV for everything if you do it even once a month. A second electric car makes sense if you normally travel 50-100 miles a day. In this case you are leaving the other car/suv home while you go to work. Of course with this range it is starting to become reasonable to just use the electric car for everything. (When I did the math several years ago Tesla was taking about how great superchargers would be once they rolled them out)