I just did a search of all 2015 Leafs within 25 miles of my house, came up with 98 (that’s a lot!) with an average price of $31.7K. Even if you factor in a $10K rebate, that brings the price to $21.7K.
I did the same check for2013 Leafs, 2015 Jukes and 2013 Jukes.
2015 Leafs (98) – $31.7K average
2013 Leafs (13) – $15.3K average
Average drop: 30% (if rebate factored in)
Average drop: 52% (without factoring rebate)
2015 Jukes (7) – $28.2 average
2013 Jukes (11) = $19.2 average
Average drop: 32%
So from that aspect, you are correct that the Leaf is dropping as much as other small Nissans.
But for some reason you neglected to compare it to the Volt. Within 25 miles of my house:
2015 Volts (96) – $35.3K average
2013 Volts (3) – $20.4K average
Average drop: 19.5% (if rebate factored in)
Average drop: 43% (without factoring rebate)
So the EV with backup gas motor is holding up much better price-wise than the full electric. By a pretty wide margin.
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Sorry, I do not have a LEAF. (Reminds me of BG thinking I live in 4S after me making comments about 4S.)
I did not look at the Volt because the article focused more on the near 50% drop forecasted for next year on BEVs in general.
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Why are you bringing 2012 Leafs up, as the article didn’t say anything about the 2012s being used in the calculation, and they specifically picked the 2013s in their figures
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How do you think they forecasted future depreciation of 2013s for next year?
