Friday, November 2, 2018

Going from a 2016 Nissan Leaf ... to a 2015 from Vroom.com

I am coming to the end of my 2-year lease of the 2016 Nissan Leaf I've been driving since early 2017:

I've enjoyed it well beyond the end of my 12000-miles-per year lease and have been getting a 15 cents per mile mileage charge since I passed 24000 miles ... several months ago. Also I have enough wear on 3 tires (I had to replace one of them after I found a screw in it) that I decided to just buy a certified used one from Vroom.com.

The 'new used car' is much the same as the old one:

Except is has only 2/3 of the range of the 2016: I think it's  a 20 KwH battery versus the 30KwH in the 2016. This is plenty to get back and forth to work (15 miles for me), but on Monday I went from home to work then home (plugging in for 1.5 hours at home) then to Mercer Island to play bridge.

When I was done the car said I had 31 miles left, and since it's only about 21 miles home, I figured, "good to go".  Not so! By the time I got home:

So: I absolutely am going to have to take advantage of the high-speed chargers that I've found over the past 2 years (mostly via Plugshare), on any day I'm doing much more than driving back and forth to work.

My experience with Vroom.com ... was not half bad! I mean: they are a car dealer and they did try to upsell me insurance I didn't need. But they arranged 100% financing with no hassle (over 7% interest since my credit score is down a bit, no surprise) ... They shipped it from Texas for $500 ... the car carrier driver was an immigrant with imperfect English who left the car at a bus stop out on a busy highway rather than the much quieter spot I thought I had picked out.

But overall, 8 out of 10 ... not even close to the worst car-buying experience I've had! On to the supercharger ...




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