Value in slightly older EVs?

Would look at the Ioniq. Smaller battery but very efficient, and decent charging speeds via CCS.

I have a 2016 30Kw 6.6kwh leaf, it's the older style. It still has full bars, 85,000kms and in the 3 years I own it it has been faultless. Range is 120k reliable, have got higher but no point over-egging it.

I would guess one of these would be in your budget. Do look for both the 30kw battery and the 6.6kwh charging, one is capacity (range), the other how quick it can recharge. They had 24kw batteries and they had 3.3kwh charging, and combinations of same so beware, they could be priced similarly.

While it was as our first EV its now second and works very well for us a short journey runaround. We'd use it for school runs, shopping and if we are going anywhere up to 100k away (charge on arrival).

The funny thing is I knew when typing that I probably had that wrong, and that someone would correct me.

I promise to pay more attention next time.

I like the eGolf but they have limited range..

I have a 2017 Leaf with 30Kw battery and 3.3kwh AC charger. I mainly charge at home during the night using night rate electricity using granny cable (have a garage socket so cannot justify EV charger installation especially considering mine is only able to take in 3.3kwh max), so it's extremely cheap to run. 100km costs me around 1.70eur in winter (even less in the summer) charged at night rate. Range is 120km in winter and 150km in the summer (mixed motorway and rural roads). I think I've used Fast DC charger only 3 times in the 9 months I own it but it depends on the personal circumstances of course. I was buying it knowing I rarely drive over 100km in one go and if I had to go to Dublin from Limerick, I'd probably take a petrol car for that but such trips for me are so rare that it made perfect sense for me to buy Leaf since most of my driving is local. Otherwise I would have bought something with 400+ range.

Very happy with it and it's more spacious than the petrol Golf I have.

I didn't mention the motor. Only the battery size and I said it was 30Kw battery?

I did mention the 3.3kwh charging. Probably incorrectly called it AC but that's the charging port used for AC charging?

A lot of people get their units wrong for EVs. Annoying, but I tend to ignore it most of the time.

@glen123

Your battery capacity (not size) is/was 30kWh (kilo Watt hours).

The OBC (on-board charger) is power rated at 3.3kW or 6.6kW.

The motor is rated at 80kW in the Leaf 30.

Many people confuse these things, but you have the correct terminology now if you choose to use it.

The nitpicking is unreal. Great way to turn people off posting here. Silly carryon

As a used

You've not said what kind of car you need.

I like the Zoe but the leaf is bigger car. I just dislike the look of the older leafs but they are probably the sensible choice. People complain about the ride in the Zoe. Otherwise I like the Zoe as a second car. My favorite is the eGolf but range and price go against it. But perhaps range isn't the issue if it's mostly urban driving maybe range isn't that much of a problem.

In terms of the battery lease RCI will be able to confirm if it's got a battery lease or not. I'm nearly sure it will show up on a motorcheck/cartell search in finance outstanding but it's been a while since I checked. You can now buy out the battery lease - I just did on my Zoe recently.

Just for comparing Leaf 40 vs Zoe ZE40 - things are not what they seem on the face of it in terms of the battery size. Nissan advertise the gross capacity whereas Renault it's the net capacity. At new, the usable battery on the Leaf is 37kWh and 41kWh for the Zoe ZE40.

This model Zoe has battery cooling (using a loop of the aircon circuit) and battery heating (PTC). I believe the Leaf has the heater only, but not 100% on that. It definitely does not have cooling.

Its nitpicking, everyone knew it was a 30 kWh battery and not the motor.

OK have the last word.

I don't think ZE40 was sold with a leased battery here, but there may be a few UK imports knocking about. ZE50 is battery owned only.