Tom, I agree with your theory. We leased a 2011 Leaf, and opted to return it rather than buy it out. The primary reason was one of economics. They wanted significantly more for the remainder than the car was worth on the open market. For example, we found that we could buy a model year newer with half the miles for a little less than what Nissan wanted us to pay for the car that we had in hand. Seemed more than a bit absurd to us.
Regards, Tom On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Tom Keenan via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > A big part of the increased availability of used EVs is that most > electrics (according to an October 2015 CNBC article, around 80% in 2013 > and 2014, currently around 75%) are leased as opposed to sold outright. > This compares with about 28% of ICE vehicles being leased. As these > three-year leases end, they are either auctioned off or sold by the > dealership they were returned to. > I haven't seen any data yet on the 'loyalty' rate of lease returnees > either getting another EV or getting oil regressing back to fossil fuel. > > Tom Keenan > > > On Aug 21, 2016, at 1:43 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV < > ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > >> On 21 Aug 2016 at 0:28, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > >> > >> Bob is right there are a lot of used EVs out there. > > > > Do we know what that means? Does it mean that a lot of people bought > EVs, > > and then decided they didn't like them, or they didn't work for them? > Did > > they then go back to ICEVs? > > > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > > EVDL Administrator > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160821/211685d8/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
