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I've looked at the leaf. The local container shipping port uses them inside the port.
The biggest issue I have with it is going to make me sound like I'm just making excuses. But I live 25ish miles, in each direction, from my job.
The "official" range is, if I recall right, about 70 miles. And I need about 50ish a day. that makes me extremely nervous, especially since the used market is very much "buyer beware".
Is the 10+ year old battery going to have enough life in it for that to still be accurate?
Can't plug in at work.
I would probably be happier if I could actually find a PHEV for about that, rather than a true hybrid.
Another issue is, those may exist in your market, but they don't in mine. Out of curiosity, I looked. The only used EV I could find within 100 miles of me was a Ford C Max. For 7k.
I live in an area where the used market is full of used trucks that get worse mileage than even my V6 Honda, for 3 to 4x what I paid for it. And the occasional clapped out Nissan that looks like it was ran over by a train. And I won't touch a Nissan made after 2004. POS CVT.