You want to be the first to lease a MINI E?

MINI Website for Lease info...

MINI USA needs 500 people in L.A., N.J., and N.Y. to try their Electric MINI for a year.

If you want to try it out, the lease is $850 a month. But you don't have to pay for gas, you get tax benefits, you get to ride in the carpool lane, you (sometimes) can get away from paying tolls, and some insurance coverage is included.

Check it out!!!

 

yeah but 850 seems pretty steep

 

True.

I would have done it for $500...

 

hahaha hey phil stop reading my mind! i have been looking at this "test" for a while. i was thinking if it's around 500, i'd likely jump in. but when i got info that it's 850, no way......

 

I'd do it if I didn't have to pay for the juice to charge it.

 

ok, now i think about it, i don't know when they say "no need to pay for gas", does it mean you still have to pay for the charging? i remember i read that the charging has to be done at certain locations

 

When you charge your car at home, it still costs less than using your fridge.

And when you charge at another location, well, then the juice is free!

 

I been watching this for about a month. $800+ is steep plus I want the right to buy it. In NJ the standard lease agreements that I been through you have the right to buy the lease out at any time. This is beginning to smell of the GM EV1 where some vehicles were virtually confiscated from the lease holder before the lease was up. I am a member of the http://www.eaaev.org/ and secretary or the local chapter.

 

No down payment, right?

 

haha i didn't even check but i hope NO down payment. if they also want down payment, that's outright stupid

 

I hear its like .18 to charge it up.

120 mile range + only 3 hours to charge with the 110 volt

I wonder how the tax credit is calculated on this? treated as a purchase and get the full $5000 tax credit?

Drivetrain: 150 kW (204-hp equivalent) electric motor, lithium-ion battery, single-stage helical gearbox

.....but weight is 3200 lbs (vs 2500), so 0-60 time is 8.2 seconds

 

If they tested them in Vancouver I bet people would pay $850. (I wouldn't but there are a lot of people here that probably would)