I've taken my Leaf to the dealer 3 times over 6 years - only because the
warranty required it. Since then I've had nothing except tire rotation
and washer fluid, which didn't require going to the dealer. I hope you
can encourage him to reconsider. Or, perhaps, a Bolt would be a better
choice for him.
Peri
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From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
Cc: "Robert Bruninga" <bruni...@usna.edu>
Sent: 27-Sep-17 7:14:17 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Anti-EV dealer
Annapolis Maryland, the state capitol and sailing capital of the world
with hundreds of miles of million dollar waterfront has only one Nissan
dealer. He has no EV's and no interest in them. Yo have to go inland
to
a middle class suburb of Washington DC to find a Nissan Delaer that
sell's
leafs.
I had a friend very interested in getting a leaf, but he chickend out
when
he found he would have to drive 25 miles to a Nissan dealer for all
service since the Annapolis one of course does not service them either.
I
suggested EV's need only 10% of the service of an ICE and so service of
tires and wipers can be done by any dealer... but I can understand why
he
was concerned..
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Keeland
via
EV
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:04 AM
To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List
Cc: Bobby Keeland
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Anti-EV dealer
I asked our local Nissan dealership (Opelousus Louisiana) about looking
at
a Leaf. He said that they had one a few years ago but it did not sell
so
they shipped it to another dealership.
Several years ago we asked a salesman at the Ford dealership (Lafayette
Louisiana) about getting an Escape hybrid. He spent a lot of time
trying
to explain why hybrid cars were a bad idea in the hot South. He pushed
us
to buy an ICE Explorer so we left.
BobK
On Sep 27, 2017 5:35 AM, "Chris Tromley via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
wrote:
Had an interesting encounter at the Mitsubishi dealer last night. I
had been in the night before to drop of my i-MiEV to reset an errant
SRS
(airbag) light. I kindly older gent in a dealer logo shirt helped me
take care of that. Last night to pick it up the same guy came out as
I was going in, and he stopped me to ask how I liked my car. I told
him I loved it, but didn't press the issue because I wan't to get back
home.
Turns out he owns the place. He informed me (in the most friendly,
car dealer kind of way), that he refuses to sell the i-MiEV there.
The short version of his reasoning is that whenever he gets an
electric trade-in (even the Toyotas!), the batteries are toast and
they're "running on the engine only." He "just doesn't want to see
the customers get hurt." (And BTW, the only plug-ins we get here in
PA are full electric. And I'm pretty sure my i-MiEV is one of maybe 3
that he's ever seen.)
I was being as polite as possible, but I must have given him a "that
makes no sense at all' sort of expression. He then proceeded to tell
me that the Space Station has 7000 - 8000 lbs of batteries, which they
need because they "just keep going through them" - they're just not
reliable enough. He saw he was getting no traction with me so he
nicely but abruptly broke off the conversation.
Just for a giggle I googled when I got home. At
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/01/spacewalkers-
upgrading-iss-batteries/
I found that the ISS batteries are NiH2 and they're very reliable but
they're reaching the end of their lives. So they swapped some out for
lithium this year, and those have vastly improved performance and
energy density.
Is this typical of the looney-toons crapola people have to deal with
when buying an EV? Seriously - that was some truly 'out-there' BS he
was shoveling, and he did so as if it was as evident as the sky being
blue.
We humans have SO much evolving yet to do.
Chris
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