Insureit1 said:
Ok picked up the 2012 LEAF SV today for $22,600 OTD final price (including TT, Freight and license fees) And yes I do get to take the tax credit of $7500. Net cost after tax credit comes to $15,100. Actually held the MCO in my hand and signed the back of the MCO as the original purchaser.
Congratulations!
Would appear that the Carmax Nissan dealer was dumping 2012 inventory at the dealership cost (or possibly less than the dealership cost).
I'm not sure why they would do that, but with new 2013 LEAFs showing up in a few weeks or months, occasionally strange deals like this do happen.
Still kind of hard to comprehend a net price of $15,100, for an electric vehicle with a 24 kWh battery.
Although Nissan hasn't released pricing for replacement battery, it probably will be somewhere in the $400, $500, up to $700 per kWh range.
$7200, $9600, or $14,400 battery cost.
So you got a brand new 2012 Nissan LEAF for somewhere between $8000 and $800 more than the cost of the battery.
Would appear resale value of Nissan LEAF is heading towards the worst resale value of any vehicle every produced.
With that, sales will remain slow, or will likely fall.