Oregon, forget that Tesla, how'bout a new Nissan Leaf for around $12K?
A confluence of interesting events. Some of this is smoke and mirrors so bear with me.
Several things have happened recently which when added together could produce historic low prices for the Leaf in Oregon. Lets look at them in order, more or less.
1. Nissan announces they will reveal the new, completely redesigned 2018 Nissan Leaf in September.
2. Oregon legislature approves bill rebating $2500 toward an EV purchase (and possibly another $2500 if you meet certain low income/scrap a clunker tests), Inception date: October 6th, 2017.
3. Nissan starts allowing 'big deal' dealer incentives to get the 2017 Leafs out of the way with the killer 2018 model coming. The ones announced so far are between $10K and $12K. Now, is that kind of juice gonna be available on the car you want here? Hard to tell, but the listing prices at Oregon dealers have dropped from around $32K 5 months ago to $27-28K today. Gotta like that trajectory.
4. The $7500 Federal tax credit still applies, assuming you have that much tax liability, although Nissan should blow through their 200,000 unit limit some time in late 2018.
A 2017 Leaf (with the upgraded 107 mi. range battery) has a base around $31K. The High Speed Charging Package (you really want this) adds $1500 or so.
A $10.5K incentive brings us to $22K. ...which is the price you'd hopefully pay going out the door.
The Oregon rebate gets you $2500 in 60-90 days.
The Federal credit gets you $7500 next year,
Our total is now right at $12K!
If you qualify as 'Moderate Income' (whatever that means) and have a 20 year old junker around that you want to scrap then you might qualify for another $2500. Sounds like slim odds.
YMMV Your mileage may vary. I'm not claiming that this won't require hard bargaining on your part.
You might have to venture into Washington to find a car to buy. There's a lot of stock there.
[Edit: I just had a look on Cars.com and there was something like 20 2017 Leafs in Colorado under $20K already. Now is there some kinda fine print that makes that price unavailable to out-of-state buyers? Beats me. It's still a great trend. I couldn't find anything in the Oregon rebate bill language that says it must be purchased in Oregon, just that it must be registered there.
Oops, that's only for certain electric customers. My bad.]
Edit2: Forget Colorado, Washington has something like 500 2017 Leafs in stock across the state as a whole. ...several months worth. Large stock, impending model-year shake-up. It's getting to be a buyer's paradise up there. Pretty much everybody in the Seattle area is offering at least $10K off and some more like 12K off (assuming financing through Nissan which accounts for $4K of that, but hey you can pay it off after the first month if you want, but why would you want to if you're getting it at 0.0000037% ?? Yes that was a real world interest rate example from a real dealer.)
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