My thoughts on a weekend with a 2015 Nissan Leaf 24Kw Acenta
Discussion
SCEtoAUX said:
Carwings is a waste of time. Haven't used in in almost my entire five years of ownership.
Just had mine serviced and MOT'd at my local indy. The bigger of the two services. Total cost £142.00 (yep, all in).
Zero VED, peanuts to service, very cheap to insure and fuel costs about 20% (at most) of an ICE. Anyone who does a regular 50 mile round trip for five days of the week would be an idiot not to have a Leaf as a second car.
Buy it for £8k, pay £100/month on the loan, save £120/month on fuel. That's a free car.
And that's the bullseye.Just had mine serviced and MOT'd at my local indy. The bigger of the two services. Total cost £142.00 (yep, all in).
Zero VED, peanuts to service, very cheap to insure and fuel costs about 20% (at most) of an ICE. Anyone who does a regular 50 mile round trip for five days of the week would be an idiot not to have a Leaf as a second car.
Buy it for £8k, pay £100/month on the loan, save £120/month on fuel. That's a free car.
ElectricSoup said:
SCEtoAUX said:
Carwings is a waste of time. Haven't used in in almost my entire five years of ownership.
Just had mine serviced and MOT'd at my local indy. The bigger of the two services. Total cost £142.00 (yep, all in).
Zero VED, peanuts to service, very cheap to insure and fuel costs about 20% (at most) of an ICE. Anyone who does a regular 50 mile round trip for five days of the week would be an idiot not to have a Leaf as a second car.
Buy it for £8k, pay £100/month on the loan, save £120/month on fuel. That's a free car.
And that's the bullseye.Just had mine serviced and MOT'd at my local indy. The bigger of the two services. Total cost £142.00 (yep, all in).
Zero VED, peanuts to service, very cheap to insure and fuel costs about 20% (at most) of an ICE. Anyone who does a regular 50 mile round trip for five days of the week would be an idiot not to have a Leaf as a second car.
Buy it for £8k, pay £100/month on the loan, save £120/month on fuel. That's a free car.
Man maths in overdrive....but hopefully it works out.
Bought a 29 month old 24kw Acenta back in August 2017 with 26k miles on.
Now it’s probably nearly 40k. Replaced the original tyres on 32k miles with some Cross climates. Had to replace one after about 1k miles as it has a massive nail in it.
Cost 8k with remainder of the warranty, 2 free services, 2 free MOT guarantees and a free home charging point.
That’s it really. Used daily for the work commute and ferrying kids around and for normal shopping etc.
Does what I need it to and my commute is slow moving traffic so the leaf is ideal for this. Easy to drive easy to manage and pre heating in winter is great.
Now it’s probably nearly 40k. Replaced the original tyres on 32k miles with some Cross climates. Had to replace one after about 1k miles as it has a massive nail in it.
Cost 8k with remainder of the warranty, 2 free services, 2 free MOT guarantees and a free home charging point.
That’s it really. Used daily for the work commute and ferrying kids around and for normal shopping etc.
Does what I need it to and my commute is slow moving traffic so the leaf is ideal for this. Easy to drive easy to manage and pre heating in winter is great.
We bought a 2014 Tekna 24KW last week. Paid £8500, at 70,000 miles with 12 bars battery health. Originally we were looking at Skoda Fabia 1.2 petrol at sub £5k.
With the Leaf, even the worst case scenario cost wise we will break even on running costs and the purchase price difference in 4 years.
Frankly I'm so impressed with the Leaf, how it drives and how it's equipped, that I'd still have one even if it cost the same as a non electric car.
With the Leaf, even the worst case scenario cost wise we will break even on running costs and the purchase price difference in 4 years.
Frankly I'm so impressed with the Leaf, how it drives and how it's equipped, that I'd still have one even if it cost the same as a non electric car.
It is possible to reset the battery condition meter to 12 bars (by resetting some battery controller or other that i've since forgotten the name of). It's one of the things I read to look out for when buying used. Should drop down to the true reading in a couple of weeks of use apparently.
I'm still liking it . Which is good as this needs to be more of a long term thing to work. Although strictly speaking, it doesn't as I could move away at the moment without losing much/anything.
I find it's much more relaxing. Going to work in a smooth, quiet and controlled way...it's Nice.
Not really a car you can drive 'in anger' although the point and squirt is fun when you are in the mood (matron!)
I find it's much more relaxing. Going to work in a smooth, quiet and controlled way...it's Nice.
Not really a car you can drive 'in anger' although the point and squirt is fun when you are in the mood (matron!)
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