I’ve found a 2023 leaf for some $10k, and with selling my ICE car, which is starting to cost more to maintain than it’s worth, it’ll realistically only cost me about $5k, maybe less. It’s got 33k miles on it, or about 10k/yr which is kinda high-average, but meh. The range in it is far enough to go all the places I’d realistically be going. (If not for making regular trips over 100 miles I’d get one of the ultra-cheap 2015 era EVs that can handle 60-80 miles…)
I probably want it even tho I’ve never test driven one. I’d obviously still do that but I think I kinda want it anyway. This one is located about 3 hours away, but it sounds like they may do inter-dealership trades up to this area, so maybe not a concern.
So what do I need to know? Can the tracking modem be disconnected? Do the batteries fail a lot? Does this model have a ton of quirks? Is it just cheap because people don’t want used EVs? Is this a horrible idea?
Does it have the old CHAdeMO charging port or did they switch to CCS or NACS?
If CHAdeMO, you may have trouble finding public chargers that support it, so you’ll need to carry around an adapter.
No idea, I’m going to see it Saturday tho and I’ll totally make sure to ask. I’m kinda thinking it probably does for how cheap it is.
But I don’t really plan to use public chargers much, so hopefully not much of an issue.