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russbost - 7/9/16 at 09:15 AM

I think the concept of open source is great, but how is THIS in any way shape or form cheap? The price of between $12.5k & $20k presumably varies according to no. of batteries & no. of seats, but as I could buy a recent second hand Leaf for a lot less & not have to supply my own "rest of car" just who is going to buy this?

prawnabie - 7/9/16 at 09:27 AM

One thing to note aswell, I read on here that it was becoming nigh on impossible for an amateur builder to put an electric vehicle through an IVA due to the upcoming (may be in force now) costly need for destructive testing on the batteries....

coozer - 7/9/16 at 09:28 AM

Well, the Leaf isn't a good buy cause after you buy the car Nissan will only lease you the batterys!

russbost - 7/9/16 at 10:51 AM

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Originally posted by coozer
Well, the Leaf isn't a good buy cause after you buy the car Nissan will only lease you the batterys!


Nope, you can either buy or lease the batteries with the Leaf Nissan Leaf E ( 80kw ) Auto. Batteries are Owned 2 X Keys FSH

& I think that car is a good example of my point, it's 5 years old, has covered 13,000 miles, you would expect it to be pretty much as new, & Nissan have a fantastic record with the batteries according to Wiki, which would you rather have, a pile of steel that looks like it was thrown together in a shed, with unproven batteries of unknown origin & you still need to build your car around it, or a complete ready to go vehicle that's just about run in for less money, I think I know which way my wallet would vote!

I simply fail to see the point of the Tabby Evo, nor what they are trying to achieve with it, pretty sure I could knock you one up in my garage for no more money than they want & that would be on a on a one-off basis!!

prawnabie - 7/9/16 at 03:12 PM

yeah as with the E-NV200 you can buy the batteries with the car, it bumps the price up by about 9k though!!

morcus - 7/9/16 at 05:22 PM

I had a look but I'm not sure I quite understand who its for, surely if you were doing what they're suggesting you'd just want to buy plans and components rather than rolling chassis.

I think your advantage over a Leaf is it not being classified as a car but as a Quadricycle like the old GWiz and not having to follow normal safety rules.

coozer - 7/9/16 at 06:23 PM

Rather stick with a good old 7L V8...

russbost - 8/9/16 at 07:22 AM

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Originally posted by morcus
I had a look but I'm not sure I quite understand who its for, surely if you were doing what they're suggesting you'd just want to buy plans and components rather than rolling chassis.

I think your advantage over a Leaf is it not being classified as a car but as a Quadricycle like the old GWiz and not having to follow normal safety rules.


But surely that's only going to help if you're going to finish up with something cheaper, lighter, faster, better endurance - looks pretty unlikely in this case! More likely to finish up with something possibly even worse than the G-Wiz - as said, I just don't get it!

Irony - 8/9/16 at 07:38 AM

I totally get the concept but not the price. I quite fancy it but not at that money. Being as you can buy a Leaf with 10K on the clock for £10K. I would just buy a leaf and strip it. Sell the parts on eBay and free up some cash.

myke pocock - 8/9/16 at 08:50 AM

Not impressed one bit. Looks like it was knocked up in a school as a GCSE project.