solarchargeddriver
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I'm really eager to buy a LEAF and power it with our 5.59 kW home solar. Trouble is, there's a good chance I'll be working in Europe for a year, starting in the fall of 2013.
You might say, just wait to buy a LEAF then.
Trouble is, we're running two gas clunkers, a '92 Integra (157,000 miles) and a '94 Camry (281,000 miles) in our household and they've both suddenly decided to give us a hard time. After no real troubles for years, we've had to have each towed twice in the past three months -- and my wife's had it, believe me.
She wants a reliable car -- and i can't blame her, although I have a strong feeling that after several expensive repairs (fuel injectors, distributor, etc. on the Integra, it's going to run at least a year before having to be towed again; not so sure about the Camry, though).
I'd like to think we could get a LEAF, run it for 18 months, and sell it (we can't afford to cover payments while we're in Europe for a year and it sits in our garage in the U.S.) and do okay. But that's probably wishful thinking (we are sitting on 7,000 banked kWh of solar generated electricity, or between $3,000 and $4,000 worth of gasoline replacement).
My wife's thinking a 1 to 3-year-old gas stinker that we buy, then sell in 18 months. Sigh, she's probably right...
What do others think -- what's our best option here?
I've ruminated over a bunch of different options in a blog entry -- http://solarchargeddriving.com/editors-blog/on-evs-a-phevs/889-should-we-buy-a-new-ev-and-sell-it-in-18-months.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; -- but that's too long to post here.
Thank you for any advice/ideas you have.
You might say, just wait to buy a LEAF then.
Trouble is, we're running two gas clunkers, a '92 Integra (157,000 miles) and a '94 Camry (281,000 miles) in our household and they've both suddenly decided to give us a hard time. After no real troubles for years, we've had to have each towed twice in the past three months -- and my wife's had it, believe me.
She wants a reliable car -- and i can't blame her, although I have a strong feeling that after several expensive repairs (fuel injectors, distributor, etc. on the Integra, it's going to run at least a year before having to be towed again; not so sure about the Camry, though).
I'd like to think we could get a LEAF, run it for 18 months, and sell it (we can't afford to cover payments while we're in Europe for a year and it sits in our garage in the U.S.) and do okay. But that's probably wishful thinking (we are sitting on 7,000 banked kWh of solar generated electricity, or between $3,000 and $4,000 worth of gasoline replacement).
My wife's thinking a 1 to 3-year-old gas stinker that we buy, then sell in 18 months. Sigh, she's probably right...
What do others think -- what's our best option here?
I've ruminated over a bunch of different options in a blog entry -- http://solarchargeddriving.com/editors-blog/on-evs-a-phevs/889-should-we-buy-a-new-ev-and-sell-it-in-18-months.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; -- but that's too long to post here.
Thank you for any advice/ideas you have.