Hi Folks,
Just an FYI, I'm selling my electric Karmann Ghia 1974 (last month made June). http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/232135937887? After much thrashing around I think I'll buy a used 2013-2014 Chevy Spark EV (in Md) (after selling the Ghia), although the Spark is a compliance car it has good performance and 82 mile range a bit better than the iMiEV at 62 miles. Both have 100K/8 year battery warranty. The Spark (2800lbs) costs more though, $13K vs $8-10K for 2013 iMiEV's (2500lbs). Initially I was thinking of a Smart ForTwo ED but the last straw with Mercedes was requiring me to tow on a flat bed trailer up to Wash DC (250 miles - since the local Mercedes dealer refuses to service/sell Smarts) annually for a $300 "battery check" service in order to keep the battery warranty or "BAP" plan in effect. Most/all used Smart ED car prices require you to add $5.1K to the price to "buy" the battery or continue the $80 per month battery fee for 10 years ($9600 extra) - usually a nasty surprise to the car buyer after he/she gets it home. From what I see Mercedes is doing their best to kill the Smart EV. They've certainly driven me away from it (pun intended). The local Mercedes dealer said they'd rather sell their foo-foo Mercedes cars with high prices/profit margins than fool with Smart Cars. Smart should have their own dealers or sell through a common man priced car- dealers like Chevy, Toyota etc with a standard 100K 8 year battery warranty like everyone else. I guess the half warranty 50K/4 years is because it's half a car J but not half the price, certainly with the "battery not included" extra battery cost L. I already have a 2013 Leaf, definitely the *best* family car, getting 92 miles range, seats 5 and getting 4 miles per kWh or 250 watt hours per mile, amazing at 3300 lbs. Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20161106/6e560a99/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
