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Originally Posted by davidmiller
This is really exciting. I've been always a fan of electric vehicles but I still cannot afford to buy one. They're just too expensive right now. I am sure in the next 5 years I will own one.
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Have you checked out the used EV market?
About 4 years ago, Geo_NR_Gee bought a used Nissan Leaf for $7k and he drives it all the time,
I bought a two year old previously leased Nissan Leaf, with only 12k miles, for $13k and it's primo.
If you intend to use your EV for urban or trips less than 70-90 miles or so (one way), Leaf is wonderful. I live in Portland, and most of my trips are not so terribly long. So some days I can go 2 or 3 days without recharging.
I also built a fast charge (L2) kit from OpenEVSE (ultra easy build) and installed it inside an old electric box, all bolted to the side of my house.
Here's the whole story:
http://ecorenovator.org/forum/conser...ssan-leaf.html
It charges the Leaf pretty fast, about 20 miles per hour (one hour of charging will put about 20 miles of motive energy into the battery).
Best,
-AC_Hacker