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Old 06-29-2014, 03:39 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Big Picture. Include the price of the car and compare apples to apples.
I would expect the battery pack to last 120K miles, so 8 years @ 15K miles/year. Here is a comparison between a Leaf S and Versa Note S+ (with the CVT option....remember apples to apples). I assume a 10% sales tax and $3.75/gal fuel.


Hmmmm....if we are talking appliances (a cheap means to get something done), then the EV is still WAAAAAAAY off. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't buy a Leaf.

Edit: To be fair I did not include the EV tax credit either. Up here, we do not have an EV tax credit anymore anyway. Also, up here gas is around $5.50/gal, which brings the numbers slightly closer....but still way off.
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