The official "I got my Leaf" thread

[Cinnabar]

I picked mine up on Sunday from Premier Nissan in San Jose. It took about an hour and 45 minutes, which was great. I told them I needed to be out of there by 2:00 pm, and they easily made that deadline. It was a pretty painless experience. I wish I would have gotten a bit more for my trade in and the really pushed the extended warranty very hard, to no avail.

Took the car straight downtown for the dinner and the Shark's game and then home after the game. I had many miles to spare.

Drove into work today and the 32 mile commute ate almost half the battery. I will trickle charge today and have plenty of juice to get home. I miss my carpool lane stickers all ready, and look forward to getting the new white stickers in 6-8 weeks. I will hopefully have some flexible hours until then!

I am also seeing more Leafs on the road. It looks like their deliveries are finally ramping up.

I found my original delivery post. Today is my nine year anniversary of taking delivery. The replacement battery still has all its bars and it is still my daily driver. It’s been a great car and the cost per mile over its life is orders of magnitude cheaper than an ICE vehicle.

[Levenkay]

I found my original delivery post. Today is my nine year anniversary of taking delivery. The replacement battery still has all its bars and it is still my daily driver. It’s been a great car and the cost per mile over its life is orders of magnitude cheaper than an ICE vehicle.

It's great that your LEAF is serving you so well, but the "order of magnitude" term has a fairly well understood meaning, at least in engineering circles, and it's somewhat unlikely that your $/mi is even ONE order of magnitude cheaper, let alone several. How about just saying, "much cheaper", and let it go at that?

[LeftieBiker]

Well, they did just get a check for as much as $5k...

[Cinnabar]

I found my original delivery post. Today is my nine year anniversary of taking delivery. The replacement battery still has all its bars and it is still my daily driver. It’s been a great car and the cost per mile over its life is orders of magnitude cheaper than an ICE vehicle.

It's great that your LEAF is serving you so well, but the "order of magnitude" term has a fairly well understood meaning, at least in engineering circles, and it's somewhat unlikely that your $/mi is even ONE order of magnitude cheaper, let alone several. How about just saying, "much cheaper", and let it go at that?

Sorry, I didn’t know this was an IEEE conforming site.

So I probably added an ‘s’ to “orders of magnitude”

I haven’t owned and driven a car for 9 years since forever.

Every time I’m a passenger in an ICE I feel like I’ve taken a step back.

It also costs a lot of energy and money to have built and then buy a new car every three years. I’ve driven this for 9 years almost daily.

Maybe “cost of ownership“ is a better term, but thanks for your negativity.

[sbuhler]

First post here...New Leaf owner 2019 SL Plus

Congratulations! It looks like you bought the other black SL Plus at Royal Nissan! I bought mine in February and traded in my 2018 which is still there.

[Learjet]

That's funny....I went there to look at the used one....your old car end up buying new...ended up not even looking at the used one.

[evtifosi]

We just bought our second LEAF. We purchased a used 2018 SV with the technology package in white. Purchase price was $18,300 with 25k miles on it.

After going around and around for several months trying to negotiate on various new cars, focusing on the last of the 2019 Plus models, and then the 2020 S Plus cars, we finally decided that the newer cars were too steep of a price to pay for the larger 60kwh battery. We then started to keep an eye out for a deal on a 40kwh used LEAF.

Lately used prices have seemed to go through a good bit of a price drop (probably due the COVID-19 pandemic). This drop in prices, and the start of things opening back up in California, gave us the opportunity to get a car at a price we were comfortable with. Especially since we will be selling our 2015 LEAF.

Currently we are working on cleaning up our 2015 SV Premium and getting it ready for sale.

This new car is a very nice upgrade and we are looking forward to being able to go further on electricity power - #roadtripsummer

[DaveinOlyWA]

We just bought our second LEAF. We purchased a used 2018 SV with the technology package in white. Purchase price was $18,300 with 25k miles on it.

After going around and around for several months trying to negotiate on various new cars, focusing on the last of the 2019 Plus models, and then the 2020 S Plus cars, we finally decided that the newer cars were too steep of a price to pay for the larger 60kwh battery. We then started to keep an eye out for a deal on a 40kwh used LEAF.

Lately used prices have seemed to go through a good bit of a price drop (probably due the COVID-19 pandemic). This drop in prices, and the start of things opening back up in California, gave us the opportunity to get a car at a price we were comfortable with. Especially since we will be selling our 2015 LEAF.

Currently we are working on cleaning up our 2015 SV Premium and getting it ready for sale.

This new car is a very nice upgrade and we are looking forward to being able to go further on electricity power - #roadtripsummer

Is there any incentive on a used EV purchase? Your prices must be higher because there are some pretty good deals and yeah, its all SL's or SV's with tech so super high MSRP's but seeing several getting them in the mid to upper 20's which means low 20's after fed tax credits.

[evtifosi]

The Bay Area deals have been pretty hard to come by on new cars - I worked for 3 months trying to get the right incentives, discounts and everything. I worked with dealers hundreds of miles away. IF the new deals were better it might have made some since to look at a new car instead of the used one we bought.

When we bought our 2015 I received $5000 off for financing at 0% interest...$5000 more as a sales incentive, and then we were able to do the $7500 FTC and $2500 State rebate - so the $34,000 car cost $18k or so out of pocket.

The best prices on a 2020 SV were $27,000 - after factoring in all the rebates we would qualify for - and that is if I could qualify for the full Federal rebate in 2020...which with lowered earnings due to COVID-19 would be a question mark at this point.

edit: Also, there are some used rebates and utility rebates that the car qualifies for so I will save a bit...

[DaveinOlyWA]

The Bay Area deals have been pretty hard to come by on new cars - I worked for 3 months trying to get the right incentives, discounts and everything. I worked with dealers hundreds of miles away. IF the new deals were better it might have made some since to look at a new car instead of the used one we bought.

When we bought our 2015 I received $5000 off for financing at 0% interest...$5000 more as a sales incentive, and then we were able to do the $7500 FTC and $2500 State rebate - so the $34,000 car cost $18k or so out of pocket.

The best prices on a 2020 SV were $27,000 - after factoring in all the rebates we would qualify for - and that is if I could qualify for the full Federal rebate in 2020...which with lowered earnings due to COVID-19 would be a question mark at this point.

edit: Also, there are some used rebates and utility rebates that the car qualifies for so I will save a bit...

Gotcha. Yeah, the best deals are on "2019" SV and SL Pluses. But if there aren't any in your area? One WA State dealer said they got a bunch from California because they weren't moving then the incentives poured in so they really got over.