I too am enthusiastic about
I too am enthusiastic about EV's but I think your EV vs Gas comparison is a little skewed towards EV. Its now 6 months since your review here. Gasoline is now $1.70 a gallon here in NW Florida. Your 60,000 miles at 50 MPG would now cost $ 2,040, we pay $0.118 per KWh so that would be $1,770 for 60,000 miles, but wait, that dose not include the cost of installing the 220v system required for a faster charge in our garage, but lets say we already had that ( we don't) then over 6 years our fuel savings would be $270, Then my 8 synthetic oil changes with filter another $290, (I do the work myself and as I'm still going to have to rotate the tires on both cars at the same intervals my additional time spent on the prius hybrid is negligible. So now we have saved $540 with the leaf. But now at 60,000 miles I need to spend $5,500 for a new battery on the leaf, plus about $1k on the dealer to install it so $6,500 + 6.5% tax = $6,922. Less the $540 saved in fuel and maintenance over 60,000 miles = the Leaf costing me $6,382 more in fuel and maintenance in the first 60,000 miles.
I own 3 Prius now, a 2005, 2006 and 2011, both of the older ones have just at 200k miles on them and I've replaced one Traction battery at 173,000 miles. Other wise additional maintenance has been minimum with similar items I would expect on the leaf's, while the leaf's do have fewer parts in the drivetrain they and the prius still have other items that need attention. Breaks, tires, rotations, wiper blades, 12 volt battery, cabin filter ect. In the first 60k I would guess maintance on both cars outside the 8 oil changes would be similar
So $6,300 in additional operations cost in the first 60,000 miles than my Prius, a limited range of 80 some miles with out some additional planning and think of a 800 mile trip, god knows what the resell will be after the 2017's come out, probably will be very dismal and very, very few looking to buy em. After writing this and thinking about it I bet in 2017 my 12 yr old Prius with over 200k miles will be worth more than a 2013 Leaf with 40k on it.
I just talked myself out of buying a $10,000 2013 Leaf SL with 18,000 miles on it!