The Zoe is the wrong brand to me, also the car has not got as much to offer as the Leaf overall pound for pound.I agree Garry, but personally I hoped the Zoe would kick in a different kind of customer base, doesn't seem to be happening so far.
Hi,i suppose it depends what you pay for a Leaf? 20k ish should buy a Tekna fully loaded with no battary rental.But the cost is so much lower, it seems like it could be an option as a second runaround car. One that does school runs and trips top the shops. the low price could really draw people into taking a chance on an EV.
Well, said, my Daughter did spent around £50.00 a week on fuel so a saving of around 2k a year for her with no limits on how many shopping visit or friends she decieds to visit. We paid 20k for the car with a 3 year service plan Beth loves the car thinks it so easy to drive.Surely the issue with all Renaults is that you can't buy it outright - every one is sold with a battery contract!
With a battery contract comes range limitations. what does that mean - well you can't get the economy of cheap energy if you have to pay £70-120 pcm and be penalised on every extra miles beyond that!
Worse still you have to sell on that battery contract and the next buyer may want to take on that overhead! The car might deprecate, but the battery rental will stay the same - so it becomes disproportionate to the purchase price of a 2nd hand car?
Its not on my shortlist!
DriveON!
Don,t know how to put this realy but driving the Leaf is not just about costs although i like the idea about paying upfront for the car then drive as much as you want but the best thing is just driving the car just feels so good without no Dev or Petrol and as you have said its just about preplaning journeys. Need to do a mega long drive. Its great the way I can drive around Derbyshire with no effort on steep roads then regenning down the other side.E Drive ON!We've done 15,000 in 9 months against a normal 8-10,000! Thats dozens of fun days and several long haul trips. Travelling to N of Scotland - the fuel saving covered the hotel bills. Our other car (a Merc) is no longer taxed and insured - there is no motivation to feed eh super-charged gas guzzler!
Drive ON!
Congratulations on the purchase of the Zoe! We all make purchases on our own terms - what works is good!Our dealer experience was awful - didn't know anything (when I said I was interested in a Zoe, they thought I was asking about someone who worked there...!). For us the Zoe makes perfect sense, so they didn't need to "sell" me anything, but even so I had trouble getting them to take my money. In the end I wish they hadn't the experience has not been at all pleasant. The car's great, but the dealer side of things was awful........