lorenfb said:
Right, so the Soul has the same expected life as the Leaf's battery, i.e. few car buyers think in terms of a 10 year ownership. Then there's no benefit to pay more for the Soul than the Leaf!
Ignoring the nit that it's 10 versus 8 years, you seem to be ignoring a whole bunch of hullabaloo over the LEAF experiencing somewhat widespread battery failures.
70% of 27kWH is objectively better than 70% of 24kWH in 8 years. That means the soul EV could potentially have useful capacity for more owners than a LEAF would, since it would take longer for degradation to reduce the range below a usable threshold for any particular user.
Now, you could argue that it's a SMALL advantage, sure, but it's still an advantage. We'll have to wait and see how the price shakes out.
=Smidge=