I can understand all the issues people have raised on this thread. The simple fact is that hardly any of the Renault range is selling. As a long term EVer, I would not be swayed by the battery lease idea unless it was very cheap - < $10/month or so. I have sufficient faith in the battery tech of all the mainstream production EVs due to the empirical data we now have - bearing in mind some early LEAFs and i-Mievs have been going for 4 years now and have many 10's of thousands of miles on them. There have been extremely few horror stories about failing cells and indeed from Tesla we hear the exact opposite - cells degrading much less than anticipated.
For my money, Renault had better start offering the ZEV range including packs out-right as an option very soon ... or I'll be selling my shares! MW On 28 Aug 2014, at 22:26, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Aug 2014 at 13:47, Ed Blackmond via EV wrote: > >> I see this as the way to make the econobox electric vehicles possible. The >> Nissan Leaf would sell for the same price as its essential twin the Versa and >> the battery pack would be leased. > > This is what Renault (Nissan's French partner) is doing with their Zöe, and > I think with their other EVs too. Personally, I don't like some of the > terms of their lease, and probably wouldn't buy a Zöe for that reason, but > that's just me. > > From what I've read, part of the idea behind their lease - they'll sell you > the car, but not the battery - is to keep the car's selling price low. I > think the battery lease costs about what you'd spend on on fuel for a > comparable car for a typical monthly driving distance; someone please > correct me of that's wrong. > > 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 For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
