Peri, Run, don't walk away. The Fiat 500e has no parts availability and parts are expensive. A $70 cooling pump on a Prius is $700 on the Fiat. And dealers in Southern California and Arizona are dropping Fiat. I just sold my 2015. Talk to a servicing dealer first before any purchase. The battery pack is water cooled and not serviceable easily like the Leaf. The Leaf has more units sold and therefore more interest in parts and repair. Sorry for being negative, I really love electric vehicles. I put 30,000 miles on the Fiat and did not purchase gas in 3 years. But I needed parts and computer help to keep it going. The dealer wanted $2,400 to replace one of the two cooling pumps. My wife is now saying no to future electric vehicles (but I see a used golf cart in my future). Others will have better experience I am sure. Alan
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 7:18 AM Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have experience with the fiat 500e ? I'm looking at yet > another option to replace our 2011 leaf. I don't have time to find > replacement cells for the leaf and paying someone to do the whole job is > probably $8-$10k, more than I want to spend on an old car. It looks like > I could get a used 2017 or 2018 model for about $15k. > > My wife wants a small car and the 500e would be a great fit. It *should* > have substantially better range than our old leaf but I want to hear > from other people. > > - what 70F range do you get for city driving ? ...for highway driving ? > - what 30F (with heat & defrost) range city ? highway ? > > Any significant concerns about the car ? > > Thanks, > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230202/ec222109/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
