You are caught in the "It is a used car" evaluation mentality. Let us consider the vehicle, as you stated it is a 1994 model and that makes it 20 years old, and you are trying to sell it without a motor. Asking $1,000 when the used market says with original engine and running it is worth $200 to $250. and it gets worse, with a motor and controller and bad battery it may bring $50 to $500 and with a good battery pack you pay $5,000 for, it will only be worth $1,500 if you can find an EV enthusiast. It is worth more as parts. and scrap the body and frame and that will get you $150 to $200. Everything but the electric motor has depreciated down to salvage or scrap value. ($0.10 a pound approx.) You can get about 1/3 of it value of your Income Tax if you donate the "Hulk" to a charity in some states ... but you have to get them to accept it. (Ask your tax advisor....) I use a rental return two years old and sell the gas engine and automatic trans, and with a motor and controller and 100 mile battery we sell them for 1/2 a new hybrid's price and the bargain is the car is depreciated over 2/3 down in price in two years use and 30 to 40 thousand miles. Also we buy wholesale and that is 50% to 75 % of retail selling pride at a used car dealership.
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Ben Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > How do I get a log in for the private section so I can see this? I can > log into the list site. > > On Apr 29, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Lawrence Rhodes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm having a hell of a time selling my Aspire for the cost of the parts. > Nobody likes the car. It's a bit old at 94(with airbags) with just under > a hundred k on the body. Drive train including transmission has 12k. I > thought I'd take out the ev parts except the motor adapter and sell it for > a thousand dollars. Then someone could just put in their own parts. The > adapter is only good for an Aspire with an ADC so limited appeal. Anyone > want the Aspire cheap. I'll use the controller and motor in another > project but nobody will EVen pay 4000 dollars which is 2/3rds the price of > the parts. It's ready to go just ad batteries but no body wants to touch > it for a reasonable amount. Last call. I may just junk it. It's a shame > all the work I put in will go to waste. I'm tired paying insurance for a > car I barely drive. It'll do 70 in third gear easy. If I had 6k I'd put a > new pack in but I don't. Lawrence > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140429/335e37c0/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) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20140429/ed19338a/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)
