On Aug 28, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Rick Beebe via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Slight variant: I'm leasing a Smart ED and renting the battery. Considering how young and rapidly evolving the EV world is, leasing and / or renting makes more sense than it does in the gasoline world. At the end of the lease the new models of both will have more creature comforts, but the EVs will also have more basic car stuff, like range and performance and service life. It's something to consider on the flip side, for those who buy: are you okay knowing that the new cars a few years from now will be noticeably better than what you buy today? Will you still be satisfied with your "old 'n' busted" model, or will you want to spend whatever it takes to get the "new hawtness"? That's a big part of the reason I'm going the DIY route, doing a PHEV conversion on a 1964 1/4 Mustang. I'll be able to make those choices about each component individually, and upgrade piecemeal over time should I so choose. For example, if some radical new and inexpensive battery technology comes out, I'll be able to build a new pack with it and turn the old 'n' busted pack into an whole-house UPS to supplement the solar panels that already cover my roof. If some new universal fast-charging standard comes out, I can switch to that without having to buy an entire new car. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140828/f27a6773/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
