Quite a few of the old Leafs have found a second life in Malta. Drive on the same side as here (in theory) and the poor range is not such an issue. It has fallen away somewhat since brexit.

 

This the kind of thing you are after? How Many Left?

 

Perhaps you can determine this from the "how many left" website, I have just had a look at the Nissan LEAF on there:

NISSAN LEAF (model family) - How Many Left?

Statistics for NISSAN LEAF (model family) model family.. See how many cars of any make and model are left on Britain's roads.

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For example if I look at the number of first registrations, 2011-2014 there were 7,119 registrations however when you look at 2011-2014 models now, there are 5,204 licensed + 224 SORN = 5,428 models still "on the system".

So that would imply 1,691 early LEAFs have been written off, scrapped or exported - if I am understanding the data correctly.

 

So that would imply 1,691 early LEAFs have been written off, scrapped or exported - if I am understanding the data correctly.

Or just untaxed.

 

@Troy you are the second person to post recently asking, 'where have all the old Leafs gone?' ('The girls have picked them, every one.' But I digress.)

It surprised me greatly. I can confirm a lot of the early Leafs and i3s seem to have been 'exported' to Oxfordshire. Well, a lot of them were probably already here and never left. I see several every day, anyway.

 

The verse that might fit better,...

Where have all the old Leafs gone?
Gone to scrapyards, every one!

When will they ever learn?

Gaz

 

I remember reading that BWM would buy back the i3 and not resell them.

Lots of Nissan Leaf's got their batteries repurposed for other things.

 

I think a lot will end up being broken for parts to either keep other cats going. Or parts like battery and motors used in ice to ev conversion home Batteries etc.

As volumes increase imagine there will be increased scrapping of everything apart from the motors and Batteries

 

Any vehicle which has rare, expensive or specialised parts will gradually dissapear over a period of time.

Some will be written off and entirely scrapped.
Some will be exported.
Some will be hidden away as investments.
Some will be in car collections.
Some will be horded and used for spares.
Some will be at scrapyards and some will be on the road.

The number of running vehicles reduces to the point that the value increases then all of a sudden a few appear which had not been seen for decades.

A Leaf, as an example is likely to fit all these criteria due to the nature of what it is and how the parts can be used elsewhere.

We've already seen pictures on the forum of cars written off due to gouges down the side so there would be a market there for a couple of doors, a bit of dodgy welding and filler later and "good as new" to someone but we are a car down somewhere because 2 doors were scrapped.

It would be interesting to compare the percentages of cars missing with other models for a given age.

Gaz

 

Bear in mind that cars that some accident written-off cars are having the batteries stripped out and being used for mass-storage solutions - this has pushed prices of older EVs up quite a bit in the last few years (though there are obviously other factors at play too), and the battery / solar farm companies were buying cars off forecourts to take out the battery and scrap the car.

 

One of the Leaf 22s got driven into a lamp-post by the engineering students at a Scottish university. Seems they couldn't be bothered/hadn't got the education to repair it (!), so it was bought up by someone in Brighton for the battery & other bits to make custom EV motorbikes. They drove all the way up there to fetch it! Dunno if they had to detach it from the lamp-pot as well. I bought up 8 kWh worth of the cells from it, now in my gge. Undergoing long-term internal self-discharge testing at the mo' (that's my story anyway).

 

Many UK Leafs have been bought up by East European dealers / scrappers.
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