evnow said:
...Why do you want to know the price of the replacement battery pack now ? Are you planning to buy one now ?...
You want a price NOW, so that you can buy it in 7 years ? Do you really expect that to be a convincing argument ?...
Well, I could say
why I want to know the current price on a part I expect to eventually need for my car is really none of your business, so there is no need for any "argument".
I think the question that is every present or future LEAF owner's legitimate concern, is why is the Nissan battery pack probably the only part of any Nissan vehicle, or any other vehicle currently for sale in the USA, for which the dealer will refuse to sell a part, that they manufacture and distribute?
Look, as a group I'd say we've been patient with Nissan.
We understand that pricing the battery pack is a complex business decision, and Nissan's desire to delay the price announcement for as long as possible.
But the LEAF has been on sale for going on three years now, and least one few LEAF owner whose car is already out of warranty may want to purchase a battery shortly.
And all of us, IMO, now have the right to know what Nissan intends to charge for the replacement pack, or if, as has been stated by several posters' on this thread who have being privately briefed, that
Nissan's present plan is to refuse to sell us replacement packs at all.
In over two years of Leasing/owning and driving my LEAF I have met and talked to literally hundreds of interested people.
One of the most-asked questions, of course, is "What does it cost to replace the battery"?
I have been replying, "I'm very curious about the price myself, since I like my LEAF, and will probably want to buy or trade-in my pack in another five or six years. Nissan promised to announce the price (
next/this/last) Spring."
From now on, I will have to reply to that same question:
"Nissan broke its promise to announce the battery pack price, and has refused to state when a price will be announced, or even if it will ever permit you to buy replacement battery pack at your local Nissan dealer at all."
I guess I could add to that answer, by trying to explain the "program" Nissan proposed on the original post of this thread, but all I could really say about it is that Nissan's explanation is unintelligible gibberish, absent the information required to make an informed assessment of the true cost of its proposed battery
rental? service contract? lease agreement? "program".
Hell of a way to sell cars, if you ask me...