Count me in an a happy customer! Might just go out and buy a second Leaf.
Amazing to me to see the naysayers. Truly amazing.
Anyone who knows anything about EVs (even people who know very very little) know that the battery is expensive and it degrades. Having a reasonable price to plan for that is what Nissan needed to do. The motor and other parts will always be available at a junk yard when the battery is much more questionable. The fact is the life on the other components is on average so long, that junk yard purchases will be a very good gamble. And in 5 years, when batteries are dying, some cars will get junked if they are in bad shape - lots of cheap motors in the yards.
And then all the forecasts going forward - so many don't even take into account the "lizard" nature of the battery. So in Pheonix, you get your free battery at 3 years and then you have a lizard that lasts 5?. All of a sudden you just went 8 years for a lower TCO than any comparable ICE car. And now for $6k you get another 5 years - sounds pretty good for the worst case scenario weather wise.
In average case, the lizard might last 8-10 years - at $500 a year. I don't know about anyone else but I always thought $1000 a year for battery depreciation or about the gas savings. Anything better is totally gravy.
I've always said for the vast majority of people, lack of TMS is not the issue, it is battery design. And if it is fixed, TMS is only important for QCing frequently or living in Pheonix. If I had a Tesla, the TMS would never have kicked in (above 110), except a few really cold times which didn't mean much anyway.
Bravo Nissan. Off to start selling again....
Amazing to me to see the naysayers. Truly amazing.
Anyone who knows anything about EVs (even people who know very very little) know that the battery is expensive and it degrades. Having a reasonable price to plan for that is what Nissan needed to do. The motor and other parts will always be available at a junk yard when the battery is much more questionable. The fact is the life on the other components is on average so long, that junk yard purchases will be a very good gamble. And in 5 years, when batteries are dying, some cars will get junked if they are in bad shape - lots of cheap motors in the yards.
And then all the forecasts going forward - so many don't even take into account the "lizard" nature of the battery. So in Pheonix, you get your free battery at 3 years and then you have a lizard that lasts 5?. All of a sudden you just went 8 years for a lower TCO than any comparable ICE car. And now for $6k you get another 5 years - sounds pretty good for the worst case scenario weather wise.
In average case, the lizard might last 8-10 years - at $500 a year. I don't know about anyone else but I always thought $1000 a year for battery depreciation or about the gas savings. Anything better is totally gravy.
I've always said for the vast majority of people, lack of TMS is not the issue, it is battery design. And if it is fixed, TMS is only important for QCing frequently or living in Pheonix. If I had a Tesla, the TMS would never have kicked in (above 110), except a few really cold times which didn't mean much anyway.
Bravo Nissan. Off to start selling again....