On 07/29/2014 09:29 AM, Michael Ross via EV wrote:
It is just now, and with the availability of the Leaf at dealer cost, that
there any reason at all for me to consider it. The Leaf doesn't serve my
need for what is essentially a small truck, the early model xB; which with
roof racks allows me to bring home 16 foot lumber from the building supply
store, or pack the rear compartment (no seats in there) with incredible
amounts of crap.
I initially installed trailer hitch receivers on both my Leaf and Tesla
in order to use bicycle carriers. However, I semi-quickly started
pulling trailers with both. About 10', maybe 12' stuff will fit inside
of both. Small numbers of pipe and lumber. The Leaf would hold about
12-14 banana boxes, the Tesla, 17-20. I used the Leaf to trailer bagged
fertilizer about ten miles, about 1500 pounds per trip. It would have
made 20 mile or more round trips. My Leaf would only be worth
$11k-$14k now if I still owned it. However, since Nissan failed to
honor my battery warranty, I can not personally recommend a Leaf. I
sold the Leaf to a neighbor and I continue to encourage him to pressure
Nissan to fix the battery. However, he is happy with ~50 mile range.
And, I believe we recently had a report of high mileage Volts going for
~$11k with fresh batteries.
I think the time has come for almost anyone to be driving an EV.
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