Everything screams to me that the Smart is a nice car for Leasing but stay away if you want to buy! Every car is going to be an orphan as soon as you buy it and it has very limited space so unless you are lucky with the car and the battery and nothing breaks - it appears that you are on your own or have to fork over whatever ransom Mercedes asks to work on the car for you. For proof, look at the unrealistic battery price, it is several times more than the cost of the battery, so why bother if there are so many better alternatives? I love my Leaf so much, I now have two. Since I need space to work on my electric truck, I am going to sell one. It has some damage but hardly noticeable and does not affect the operation at all. Good battery, still has 12 bars though I suspect will lose bar 12 soon. Car is a 2011 Leaf SV, battery has lived in Washington until 3 months ago when it moved to California, that is why it still has good capacity. Send me an email if you are interested.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Hanson via EV Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 1:52 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: [EVDL] Smart Car Conversion Kits? Hi folks I was wondering if it makes sense to convert a Smart Car and does anyone know of a good conversion kit? The problem with the Smart ED as I was looking at a used 2014 is they want a $80 monthly battery rental fee for ten years or $9600 on top of the car price. Also there is *no* service manual available from Mercedes. I called several Smart dealers and they said their service department can't even get a service manual. Also I can't find any way to monitor the individual cells like my Leaf or iMiev And If you buy the battery for an additional $5k the warranty is only 4 years and 50k miles. Battery replacement cost is $29k verified at several dealers. The Leaf and iMiev are 100k 8 year warranty and the Leaf is $5.5k to replace and the iMiev is about $12k a dealer said. I'm thinking of selling my Ghia www.evalbum.com/4346 and buying a used iMiev or Smart ED. I already have a Leaf that my son drives mostly and both EVs are charged from the sun. Have a renewable energy day Mark Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
