On Nov 6, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Alan Brinkman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> How about a used Volt? Or a used Leaf and a low cost beater ICE as a backup? > Or a used Smart electric car with a used ICE beater? All suggestions I made. He's nervous about the quality of used batteries, even though I tried to explain to him that they're getting real-world lifetimes comparable with automatic transmissions. Sure, you might buy an used EV with batteries that die a year or three later -- but you could just as easily buy an ICE with a transmission that dies a year or three later, too. His wife has a sales-type job that has her putting too many miles on the road for possibly even a Tesla, so they'll always have a "backup." But he's also worried about the might-never-actually-happen instance where he himself might have to bounce all over the place for some random confluence of family emergencies that he doesn't learn about until after he's already at work. The Volt really would be perfect for him. I'm hoping that either they're in his price range when he decides he's ready to buy (at least another year) or that something else similar enough is on the market or horizon. At the least, I take solace in the fact that Volt-style hybrids are likely to soon dominate the already-dominant hybrid market. And, frankly, if all today's hybrid models were replaced with plugin models with 20 - 40 miles of range, that'd pretty much end our private transportation energy crisis. The transition from such a state of affairs to an all-electric one would be natural and easy but much less urgent. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141106/9458ae07/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
