Not exactly sure of your price range. I've owned a Chevy Bolt and I know a number of them are now available on the used car market. The seats fold down and we have carried our dog in it. I like the way the sensors alert you instead of trying to control of a situation.
The Tesla stores will tell you that other EVs are traded in for Teslas. Those EV trade-ins are taken to car auction houses. What they get sold for is deducted from the cost of a new Tesla. You might want to find out if you could buy direct from the person trading in their EV for a Tesla. You'd be buying it at "wholesale" prices. On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:42 PM Chris Richard via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > All: > > First, let me explain that I'm not an active contributor to this list and may > inadvertently be raising questions that have been discussed before. I looked > in message footers to see how I might search the archive and found nothing. > So, if this has been explicated before, I apologize and request a pointer to > where I might find the earlier comments. > Here's my question: > I am nearing the lease termination date on my second Fiat 500e. This time, > I'm considering buying either a used 500e or some other EV. > The leases are fine, but I'd rather not pay another big deposit and end up > with no equity in another three years. > Of course, the big questions are range and battery life. My two cars have > done fine on range through the six years I've leased them. I typically put > 500 miles or so a month on them, and expect to return this second car at > around 15,000 miles, which was the same usage for my last one. That's about > typical of the cars I see offered for sale at around $8,000 without Fiat's > absurd residual prices. > What happens to range beyond three years and beyond 15,000 miles is a mystery. > I'm in California. I may possibly relocate to Vermont in the next few years. > It's my understanding that California law mandates a 10 year/150,000-mile > warranty on ev batteries, but I'll bet there are plenty of loopholes. I'd > like to know about that, about options and questions to ask on extended > warranties, on the merits of buying from a dealer vs. a private party, etc. > Finally, as much as I've liked the 500e, I'm not wedded to it. It would be > nice to be able to carry lumber home or to have less fear that my dog, who is > so afraid of cars that he can only travel in a crate, might get seriously > hurt or killed if somebody rear-ends me. So I'd like more room, but have > never been that impressed with the other EVs available in my price range. > Any suggestions appreciated, and again, sorry if this has already been > explored on this list. > > CR > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
