Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes (gidyup, gidyup, gidyup 409), before I knew there'd come a time (gidyup, gidyup, gidyup 409), when I would buy a brand new 409 (gidyup, gidyup, gidyup 409).
Sounds like the 2014-2015 Chevrolet Spark EV may be your ticket. Smaller than the LEAF, $25K or less after incentive, 400 ft. ft. of torque (why I relate it to the fabled 409 of my youth). You can't build that at home. You lucky West Coasters can buy it this summer. Don't make me come out there. Pat ________________________________ From: Chuck Hursch <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:01 PM Subject: [EVDL] devil's advocate on buying a Leaf Noticed in the paper a day or two ago that one of the SF Bay Area Nissan dealers is offering Leaf leases for some-$3000 down and $99/mo. I think Fed/state tax credits are still after that. A fellow EVDL'er allowed me to drive his Leaf at the 2011 Stanford Rally - nice car, new tech... although bigger than I need. My nearly twenty year old (1994) VoltsRabbit conversion is due a battery plant (#5) this fall, scheduled for Sept. Sixteen US2200 6V'ers plus a couple of spares is going to be on the order of $1700, although I have not checked battery prices recently. Getting some rust bubbles under the paint around the rear side windows (don't know how hard it is to deal with that), and the fenders are beginning to rot again (had that dealt with in the body work in 1996). Old technology, but still interesting and still works. I put it together with my own hands, and all the sweat equity is there. But it's getting harder and harder to be a devil's advocate about taking the plunge to a new EV such as the Leaf. Probably one more battery plant for another 3-5 years, but, sigh... Chuck _______________________________________________ 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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130503/b91ac785/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
