I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf • Hacker News Board

Re: I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

#681

Post by 01100011 » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

ggreer wrote: post #479

01100011 wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss my 2019 Chevy Bolt. Zippy and nimble. Didn't feel heavy like the Tesla I rented. Plenty of range for the city.

What Tesla did you rent? The base Model 3's curb weight is 3,552lbs. The first generation Bolt's curb weight is slightly heavier, at 3,563lbs. The long range Model 3 is 3,817lbs and the Performance model is 4,048lbs, but those tend not to be rentals. And the cheapest Model 3 will have significantly more acceleration than the Bolt. Maybe the rental's acceleration was set to comfort mode. That reduces pedal responsiven…

Model Y. The battery perf was also terrible, requiring a lot of time spent at the supercharger for less than 150 miles of driving. That could have been due to battery abuse as it was a rental car.

I'm not saying the bolt out-accelerates a tesla. That's silly. I'm saying the bolt was fast and nimble.

Software on mine was fine. Battery charging sucked but that wasn't a problem for me having had subsidized charging at work. Battery fires caused my bolt to receive a free, brand new battery so also not a problem.

Re: I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

#682

Post by me-vs-cat » Sat, Sep 13, 2025, 1:45 AM UTC

bapak wrote: post #661

me-vs-cat wrote: post #659

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His trade-in car was a long way from "year-old perfectly-working". Looking at $13k (which excludes his $2k trade-in), I'm left wondering if my own conditions are favorable for switching to EV.

The iPhone example was just to make it more obvious, but the logic still applies. It's 13k at best, not 11k

The year-old iPhone example is misleading at best, if you take this guy at his word on having "driven into the ground" multiple cars. If you don't believe him on that front, I see no reason you'd believe anything else in this essay, anyway.

We should ourselves and should encourage others to effect less waste in our world. We should not compare someone apparently doing so to those who clearly do not.

Re: I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

#683

Post by h2zizzle » Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 3:01 PM UTC

majormajor wrote: post #625

h2zizzle wrote: post #618

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, America exported our car-privileging planning and policies, so those places that accepted our "expertise" buffed car travel as much as possible - traffic catches up, of course, but that's when the nerfs to public transit come in. It can be a number of strategies come to bear, including poor access to transit nodes, long wait times between service, and disruptions (American trains often have to wait for…

So cars and their use are entirely American inventions now? That's some new levels of American Exceptionalism...

America wasn't devastated by WWII. Our pre-war car infrastructure wasn't destroyed, and post-war prosperity meant that it was more economical than it might have been, in the short term, to put every American family into a car. Countries with populations temporarily too poor to afford vehicles, and gas, and roads, and pump stations, and gas lines, and so on, would have been more likely to build mass transit. Once wealth returned, American consultation (and aspiration to our relatively more affluent lifestyles) would have come into play.

It's a rare case where American Exceptionalism is a fact.