How much!! (New Leaf related content)

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My wife's Leaf Tekna (our 2nd) is due to leave us in May at the end of its 2 year PCP deal. The first (stupidly cheap) Leaf cost us £4600 over 2 years. The current Leaf is around £5600 over 2 years. A few calls around today looking for a deal on a new Tekna provided some pretty eye watering quotes - it would seem £1500 down and £470 per month is now where things are! I know the government grant has reduced and people now want electric cars as opposed to Nissan having to heavily support the earlier deals, but over £12k to run one for 2 years seems a bit, err excessive!
So what are people's thoughts on replacing their Leaf when they go back this year, what electric alternatives are you considering at a more sensible cost?

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I think a Tesla is out of our budget unfortunately..
RCi won't allow any extension to the term so it's either buy it for £15.5k (no thanks) or hand it back.
I think sadly we'll go back to buying an ice car for our town and school run duties.

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DonkeyApple said:

Why not buy the car you e been using? It’s only 2 years old, in an EV and you know it.

Fair point but I just don't see a 30kw Leaf that'll be outside of warranty in 12 months would be an especially good place to park £15k. I've always felt more comfortable "renting" electric vehicles over the last 4 years as the battery technology and ultimately range has improved rapidly leaving you driving something that is pretty undesirable when compared to the rest of the market in a relatively short space of time.

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Thanks for the advice and replies.
After the traditional 30 min call queue I got through to RCI this morning. There are currently no options to extend the PCP deal, refinancing is at "an extremely generous" 8.9% apr with no 0% option and no actual access to talk the department that issue the financing quotes. Instead I've been told to call back again a month before it's due back, so it's the usual helpful RCI customer service.
I've probably underestimated the change in the EV market since our first Leaf went back, that car had a GFV of £16k and actually sold to a dealer for under £10k... on balance I'll prob stump up the £15.5k required to buy it, maybe I'll get lucky and score some interest free finance..