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Perpetuity is a long time - even EVs don't last for ever.Nubo said:It's not the difficulty of the math and I don't have a problem with amortizing the cost. But it IS perpetuity as far as has been described till now.
Most likely Seattle renters will be subsidizing phoenix ones.Valdemar said:I hope that the $100/no figure is not based on the 7500 annual miles in Seattle usage model, and driving twice that in Phoenix will cost $200 or more. All in all the phrase "Just drive the Prius" makes much more sense in the light of this announcement.
evnow said:Most likely Seattle renters will be subsidizing phoenix ones.Valdemar said:I hope that the $100/no figure is not based on the 7500 annual miles in Seattle usage model, and driving twice that in Phoenix will cost $200 or more. All in all the phrase "Just drive the Prius" makes much more sense in the light of this announcement.
If battery rental becomes part of new car buying, there can be many.Valdemar said:There won't be too many of them.
LTLFTcomposite said:Something nobody has talked about is the "latest technology" angle... if they want to put in a 40kwh pack is the hundred a month deal more attractive?
thankyouOB said:you are thinking about a Q&A now? hard to believe that this is the way a major international corporation rolls out a major program for a key, new brand.
but maybe we are just a free focus group, and the real work of communicating with the public comes later.
I think you'd be looking at a $75,000 Nissan EV that was totally awesome.TomT said:One has to wonder how different this might be if Musk was running the Nissan EV division...
WetEV said:No exit date on the battery lease?
It finally dawned on me why this is so hard for them. It's because the price/cost really is what it was rumored to be originally, in the neighborhood of $15k, not $5 or 6k as suggested recently. Nissan gets big regulatory credits for selling EVs, so they will sell these cars for at a loss if need be and almost certainly are, but there are no such credits for replacement parts. Announcing/confirming to the world that a replacement battery costs $15k will totally kill the resale of these cars, which is problematic for Nissan since they have a boatload of them coming off lease. Of even greater concern, as if that's not enough, is it will unleash a media/PR nightmare for Nissan. So they came up with this scheme to kick the can down the road.charlestonleafer said:I can't understand why they won't release a price for pack replacement? What are the ramifications of releasing a price? It's clear that people want it.
The exact reason I don't like the "rental" plan. It means that those who treat their battery well will be subsidizing those who abuse it, and renters in cool climates will be picking up part of the tab for Nissan's mistake in selling the Leaf in Arizona.evnow said:Most likely Seattle renters will be subsidizing phoenix ones.
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