Posted on 10/03/2019 7:43:12 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Nissan Leaf owner has received a $33,000 bill to replace the battery in his electric car - even though it's now only worth $12,000.Canberra engineer Phillip Carlson bought his fully-electric hatchback brand new for $53,500 in August 2012.
Just seven years later, he can't drive his environmentally-friendly car because he isn't prepared to stump up $33,385 to replace the lithium ion battery.
The tab included $750 for labour and $29,600 for the battery plus the 10 per cent GST. Mr Carlson, a married father with a daughter, believed his new car had a range of 175km but even as a new vehicle, his Nissan was only able to travel 120km.
'Getting 120km brand new was a real stretch and it was more like 110km,' he said.
Before he took his car in for repairs in February this year, it could only travel 40km, or just 25km with the heater on in winter.
The problems had worsened in 2017, just five years after it was first registered.
His Nissan, with a 24 kilowatt hour battery, struggled to travel beyond 60km and the battery was still covered by the five-year warranty.
'I started having trouble just driving from home to the dealership and back just for a service,' Mr Carlson said.
Mr Carlson had made a series of complaints during the warranty period, only for Nissan to tell him there was nothing wrong.
His Nissan dealership in the Australian Capital Territory earlier this year gave him a quote for $33,385.
'That was the first time they bothered looking at it after I complained so much Nissan told them to do a battery test and they claimed it's totally fine,' he said.
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“Uncle Tony’s Garage”
“I have nothing against electric cars. They are cool!”
Henry Ford built a car, that with proper repair and maintenance would last indefinitely.That car was the model T. Other manufacturers, especially GM saw the downside of this almost immediately.
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Golf karts is golf karts.
You just know the twit, like vegans, let everyone around know about his fetish.
Tesla versus Hellcat:
3 out of 5. You lose on the second run.
but.......
LOL! He let him go first! He even said that before the race!
LOL! 10.6 and 127 mph in the quarter is petering out after 50 yds!
From August 2019, the latest price is $8,500, still well short of $30K:
Which sedans finished ahead of him?
I’m not saying they are slow. I’m saying the car in the video didn’t have the top end speed and power to keep his lead in the race I watched. Everybody has their own preference. You like electric and I like the rumble of a combustion engine. Nothing wrong with that.
It’s a sedan.
And you shouldn’t make assumptions.
My pony rumbles to the tune of over 700 hp.
Just curious... does anyone know the average time it takes to charge an electric vehicle, once you’ve driven your 175 km?
A$ 33,385 = US$ 22,568.09
Still, plenty enough.
If you go to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, they have early electric vehicles from the 1880’s
Initially there were more electric vehicles than internal combustion ones.
Believe it or knot.
Cheep fuel and Fords assemble line essentially won out.
He can buy a low-end BMW for the price of a battery....
I’ve always wondered what the resale value of a 5 year old electric car with 100,000 miles on it would be knowing that the batteries would eventually wear out.
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