I've seen bulky range extenders offered for Leafs by aftermarket vendors. This is not a Leaf range extending kit from Nissan. What would a Nissan kit look like? Just a battery replacement? Is there a high cost for R&D and manufacturing of this kit?
I'm not sure I see a solution in the article. It's the beginning of an idea... but I think it will ultimately be cheaper for Nissan to pay off the customer and walk away. Then the aftermarket can pick up where Nissan left off and $5k is almost half of a 20kw additional trunk pack. They don't have the same guarantee and it doesn't add value to the car so it is difficult to get a bank loan against the asset... but it is a solution that Nissan does not have to add to their portfolio. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:24 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://www.torquenews.com/3618/nissan-leaf-crisis-residual-value-avert-fix-problem > Nissan Can Avert LEAF Pending Crisis If It Makes This Single Change > By Douglas Stansfield 2015-05-28 > > [image > > http://www.torquenews.com/sites/default/files/image-1/douglas_nissan_leaf_0.jpg > Nissan LEAF > ] > > Nissan’s recent offer to existing LEAF lease holders of $5000 to reduce > their residual value has presented an interesting dilemma for the > automaker. > > The secondary electric car market isn’t holding its value as originally > anticipated, so Nissan’s answer was to help reduce the LEAF's residual > value > and move the cars from lease to own. This thereby shifts the steeper than > normal depreciation rate from Nissan to the now LEAF owners. The question > is > will this solidify the secondary EV market? > > As an arm chair economist, I firmly believe that value is held in the > prices > one pays for the goods they purchase. At this point, the value of a Nissan > LEAF is weighed by the current market availability and the anticipated > future availability. As with the law of diffusion of innovation, EV sales > are in the early adopter phase of the product life cycle. Consumers that > are > the early adopters most likely anticipated the battery improvements that > have been evolving so opted to lease rather than buy their first Nissan > Leafs. This leaves them open to the next generation EV which would be > available in the future. As anticipated, that philosophy will be holding > true and many Nissan LEAF leases will just give back their cars at the end > of the lease and buy or lease a new EV. This is mostly because EVs with 200 > mile range are coming. > > So what is Nissan to do? > Can it develop a strategy to uphold the value of the secondary market > Nissan > Leafs? I believe it can. The published rate for a replacement Nissan LEAF > battery pack is $5499 as previously published. > > What if Nissan Retrofits 2011 LEAFs to 2016 Range? > Well, what if Nissan developed a kit, that would be able to be installed at > the local dealers to retrofit 2011 to 2016 Nissan LEAFs with an add on > battery that would push the Nissan LEAF cars on the road today up to the > 200 > miles range of the next version Leaf. Instead of a $5000 give back just on > residual value, give back $5000 worth of batteries and keep the value of > the > overall used car higher? > > There are many benefits to this. > It would help solidify the used EV car market. > It would help keep existing leases in the Nissan Family. > It would drive future brand growth by word of mouth. > It would increase publicity for the brand. > [© torquenews.com] > > > > > For EVLN posts use: > http://evdl.org/evln/ > > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3086531/Hate-parking-car-Nissan-vehicles-automatically-2020-says-CEO.html > Nissan cars will be autonomous-drive ready by 2020 > > http://gas2.org/2015/05/22/zero-motorcycles-announces-price-cut/ > $8.5k Zero e-Motorcycles Announces Price Cut > > > http://www.mercurynews.com/los-gatos/ci_28158057/los-gatos-shorts-click-it-or-ticket-campaign > Los Gatos shorts: 'Click It or Ticket' campaign is now underway > + > EVLN: Polaris Will Leave HarleyD's E-mcycle In The Dust> Snooze-U-Lose > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-What-if-2011-LEAFs-were-Retrofitted-to-2016-Range-tp4675979.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -- Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. 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