Yes, you pay for the protection a car trader offers and more on top to have a car delivered to your door from the other end of the country.Carlton green wrote: ↑21 Mar 2024, 6:24pm H’mm, can’t argue with that eBay listing of sold goods but I’m not sure that I’d buy an electric car off of eBay.
The small battery (24Kwh) Leafs are the earlier ones and even if the batteries are in really good condition - which I think unlikely - they have limited range which constrains what they might be used for. A pal of mine has one and it’s really only any use for short journeys near to home … a lot of folk would find them impractical and hence the prices. If battery replacement and enhancement was available for sensible money then they’d sell much better (IMHO).
I checked on Cazoo what Leafs were available under £10k and a Gen 1 with a 30 KWh battery is about £7.5k, there was nothing for £5k.
https://www.cazoo.co.uk/cars/nissan/lea ... price-desc
It would be interesting to compare the water-tightness of a Cazoo warranty for an older EV with that of a third party provider. I've read the motor trade treats EV batteries as consumable items and how far you expect to travel on battery power is open to so many variables - and therefore the ability for warranty providers to explore ways to wriggle out.
A cheap BEV would surely be seen as nothing more than a local run about with no expectation to travel more than 40 miles on a charge. For most people, a very large proportion of their trips are incredibly short ones, which is where cars with engines make least sense and BEVs make most sense - low speed, cold starts, multiple stopping and starting, many junctions and so on.
There is a certain irony that a BEV used for what it's best at is available so inexpensively, given the very high prices for those capable of driving almost half the length of Britain.
