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Old 04-21-2021, 12:55 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
You've had multiple options to buy a subcompact EV but it looks like you bought a midsize Leaf instead. If people that claim to want to buy a subcompact EV don't buy them why should manufacturers make them?

Today Mini will be happy to sell you a subcompact Mini EV for $30K ( which becomes $20K after rebates in Oregon). That is $6400 less than the gas version.
I bought a midsize Leaf because it cost me ~$11,500 for a basically brand new car. $16,800, minus $2,500 rebate, minus selling old Yaris to my dad for a commuter vehicle.

If I had 30 thousand dollars to spend on a car, I would just pay someone to convert a modern subcompact to electric. The Leaf was the only option that had a reasonable range and was a price I could afford.

When I bought the Leaf, if the Chevy Bolt had been in a price range I was willing to pay I would have bought one of them instead. But I can't imagine spending (at the time) $25,000 on a used car.

We bought my wife's Honda Fit ~6 years ago for $17,000 B-R-A-N-D N-E-W. So that's why I bought the Leaf; because it's a set of compromises to get me an electric car, now, that I can afford, with a reasonable-ish range.

If Toyota made a Yaris electric (or even a Corolla), I'd be all over it.

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