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
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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.
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