lessismore
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My Clarity lease will end this coming August. I am thinking of moving on to a BEV. In addition to the points already mentioned in the previous posts, I do want to point out that, with PHEV, owners have double the maintenance costs down the road. Unless you unload before heavy costs sink in, you are looking at double the trouble having PHEV around. We still have an ICE which requires all the seals and fluids to run it; then we have a small battery which will degrade faster than those of BEVs because we run them through much more frequent charge/depletion cycles. When these PHEVs are new, yeah we got double the convenience than ICEs and BEVs. When we sell them, our potential buyers are looking at those aspects, as well. I have a 2010 X5 which I still maintain on my own and drives well. I cannot imagine myself doing a battery replacement or any repairs without dealership's help since we are talking about high voltage components.
Clarity is a great car, and with its residual being so low I may just buy it with cash. But I don't intend to keep this car as long as I did with my X5 for the mentioned reason.
Clarity is a great car, and with its residual being so low I may just buy it with cash. But I don't intend to keep this car as long as I did with my X5 for the mentioned reason.