Shooting4life
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- Oct 22, 2015
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So a couple of weeks ago my wife and I leased a 2016 e-golf se.
The reason for buying:
My wife and I work at the same place so we carpool to work. I am starting a new job at the end of the month and will be taking Bart, we have 2 cars, a 2012 Passat tdi sel premium and an 03 gmc 2500hd with 8.1 liter engine. I didn't want to take the truck to Bart, would be a real pain to park. So I started looking for a used car for me and the Passat gets good mileage and is comfortable. I then started looking at the various electric car leases and realized that the car is basically free for us. Instead of paying $100 in bridge toll, my wife will now pay $50 a month. Instead of buying roughly $150 in gas per month between her driving he Passat and me driving my 9 mpg truck, we now buy power and much less diesel for the Passat. In the end our monthly expenses are not changed.
The deal from Hayward VW.
12k/36 months
1k down + 2k vw credit + taxes/licenses (a little over 3k drive off).
139 a month.
Plus I will receive another 2.5k rebate from the state of California in 90 days.
Installed a juicebox pro over the weekend as my evse. It has worked as promised, even got a discount as a local purchaser when I picked it up from the shop in San Carlos during my lunch
My observations and difference from 2015 egolf based on my reading here:
1. The plug no longer locks when plugged into the car.
2. The infotainment system has a way to set delayed charge directly from the car. I have used this twice now and it has worked perfectly. Apple connect is a waste of time.
3. Carnet was not activited at the dealer, so I have to go back next Monday to get them to turn on carnet at the car.
4. They really should have kept the faster charging for the se, but in the end we are charging over the evening so the slower charge does not really impact us. We charge roughly 4 hours every evening for our 50 mile round trip commute.
The reason for buying:
My wife and I work at the same place so we carpool to work. I am starting a new job at the end of the month and will be taking Bart, we have 2 cars, a 2012 Passat tdi sel premium and an 03 gmc 2500hd with 8.1 liter engine. I didn't want to take the truck to Bart, would be a real pain to park. So I started looking for a used car for me and the Passat gets good mileage and is comfortable. I then started looking at the various electric car leases and realized that the car is basically free for us. Instead of paying $100 in bridge toll, my wife will now pay $50 a month. Instead of buying roughly $150 in gas per month between her driving he Passat and me driving my 9 mpg truck, we now buy power and much less diesel for the Passat. In the end our monthly expenses are not changed.
The deal from Hayward VW.
12k/36 months
1k down + 2k vw credit + taxes/licenses (a little over 3k drive off).
139 a month.
Plus I will receive another 2.5k rebate from the state of California in 90 days.
Installed a juicebox pro over the weekend as my evse. It has worked as promised, even got a discount as a local purchaser when I picked it up from the shop in San Carlos during my lunch
My observations and difference from 2015 egolf based on my reading here:
1. The plug no longer locks when plugged into the car.
2. The infotainment system has a way to set delayed charge directly from the car. I have used this twice now and it has worked perfectly. Apple connect is a waste of time.
3. Carnet was not activited at the dealer, so I have to go back next Monday to get them to turn on carnet at the car.
4. They really should have kept the faster charging for the se, but in the end we are charging over the evening so the slower charge does not really impact us. We charge roughly 4 hours every evening for our 50 mile round trip commute.