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In reply to: New or used and deals
Well rang about one that had 900 miles on and was an ex demo. Intens with some extras.
They said they would do good deal etc. Came back over 3 year PCP 135 a month for car.
£135/month for a used car seems crazy; we’re paying £139 and £148 monthly for ours (£139 for the 3k/year PCP and £148 for 9k/year PCP, both over three years).
I got down to around 12.5k on carwow, then used that to get a better deal from dealers (the carwow quote wasn’t an intens, but the dealer didn’t realise that ;)). Our price worked out at £11,090 (or £11,190?) for Intens + metallic paint; then got £200 more towards the deposit from the dealer (and paid £499 ourselves).
Battery rental is fixed, whether new or used. The website shows old prices, it’s now £25/month for 750 miles/warter, £50/month for 7k(?)/year, £57/month for 9k/year.
In reply to: New or used and deals
My new car at £10k after subsidy at end of 2014 on 9000 miles is near enough £200 a month total, car on PCP and battery.
Try carwow.co.uk to get dealers to give you offers…
In reply to: New or used and deals
You can sometimes find a massive discount off the list price for new or almost new (few delivery miles on a pre reg) – say £10.5 or 11k for a loaded metallic intens (although someone has done better). If you can then it’s seriously worth thinking about in my opinion, as are the even more amazing 6 month old demonstrator deals referred to by sandy. Otherwise then try to find a very good PCP deal with a minimum price buyback at Year 3 as they can look like a no brainer as the depreciation will be monumental (in my opinion, given cost of getting a charger, introduction of much better range variants in 2017, battery rental prices not deprecating on older cars and concern about battery range degradation and the pricing of ex demos already shows the trajectory) and renault finance are underestimating it in their PCP model. Given depreciation is so extreme I wouldn’t buy a used 12 month old one unless the price was a very great deal less than the above referred to by sandy.
In my experience dealers don’t seem to negotiate on the battery rental payment which they think of as seperately from purchase (£57 per month for 9000 miles per year + recovery if you run out of charge + battery replacement if performance drops too much) if I remember correctly).
In reply to: ever been blanked by a "fellow" EV driver?
Nah the Leaf was on the DR side, but the ecotricity site says only 1 car can charge at a time. That right isn’t it?
Still upshot is I know I can eeak the miles out and make it to the maximum range pretty well. Pretty sure I did about 85 miles on 85-88% of battery. Next big trip I should be 100% charged at start and I might drive a smidge slower at the start. 100+ should be doable.
In reply to: New or used and deals
Are you reducing your milage? £130 diesel seems like a lot more than 7500 miles a year.
Battery rental is battery rental, as such you don’t worry about battery age, if it drops below 75% original capacity Renault will replace it (at your request).
Aim for under £8495 for a 6 month old demo, mine is that age and I paid that for a white intens loaded with extras. But I know at peat one person on here has just paid less.
I think best time to. But a demo is 2 weeks before the end of a month. Ask
In reply to: New or used and deals
The battery rental is a set price I think.
I got a new Intens with a paid colour for 188 per month inclusive of battery hire at £50 a month. I spend £130 a month on diesel in my BMW and so was a no brainer for me.
In reply to: New or used and deals
Well rang about one that had 900 miles on and was an ex demo. Intens with some extras.
They said they would do good deal etc. Came back over 3 year PCP 135 a month for car. Then for 10K battery was 62. I was under the impression that because it wasn’t a brand new car that the battery rental was a great deal lower than newer. That seems like new battery rental.
Any advice on deal or battery rental would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul
In reply to: New or used and deals
Really so 65 a month from a dealer is that just for battery hire or the car as well?
Seems very cheap.
If you have anywhere that might do that deal Sandy that would be great.
Thanks,
Paul
Topic: New or used and deals
Hi,
I am looking at getting my wife an EV car. She doesn’t do a great deal of miles but with Health Visiting job guess that might make her miles per year up to 9K. (She gets 45p a mile and will do quite a few miles so hoping that with the money back won’t pay a great deal more than does on 7 year old car which costs 100 pounds a month plus 65 quid a month on petrol(then tax each year).
Now I have test driven a leaf and think they are great but the price per month scared me(370). Now I have seen better deals for Zoe and have read a great deal of people’s posts on here. Tried to get test drive of one at local dealer but they didn’t have one in at time it had been loaned out.
My first question do people think it’s better to get a new Zoe or a 1 year used one? Cash price as obviously lower for used but then have to buy charging point.
Also what sort of price have people managed to get garage’s down to on a new one including the battery hire?
Any suggestions greatly received so at least if I do go to dealer up here have some sort of gauge on prices over people have obtained.
Thanks,
Paul
In reply to: Renault zoe gen 3
The new motor (2015) does not support 43kw charging. If you plug in to a 43kw rapid charger, it will only charge at 22kw.
This is the new Renault-made motor, which his apparently 10% more efficient, but doesn’t do 43kw charging. Renault say they’ll let people pick between the two, because they realise it’s a massive stupid mistake to have made a new motor that doesn’t support it 🙂
(We’re talking about a 2015 motor here… the double-capacity battery is likely 2017/2018).
