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Yes, I agree. The quality of those cars, and whether they will be financially viable to keep running after 5-8 years is questionable.You still don't get it, buying new an EV is already overly expensive, you are paying some the money you will be saving on fuel and servicing up front. Due to the high depreciation levels a lot of Ev's suffer, whoever had your Leaf first probably never even recouped that money. It's only been good for you as a second owner. So if prices go up further, that doesn't mean it will be any better for the original purchaser as they will likely have to increase prices further to make a profit.
A Smart car style vehicle is smaller than a Leaf so weight difference will go some way to explain range difference.
The reason that Chinese Ev's are so cheap is because they are made in China where production costs are considerably lower. Add to that, there is always the suspect quality issues. There are cars built by Reowe that are banned from sale in Europe because of their poor and dangerous crash protection. Yet their British built MG's are fine. We have had loads of Chinese built Continental turbochargers failing to give full boost after a hundred hours running equivalent to 5000 miles, yet no performance drop off from the exact same specification Continental turbos built in Europe.
I am not saying all Chinese built products will be of a poorer or substandard quality, but I would certainly be wary of them.
You keep going on about high depreciation, but if you combine the shortage of supply with the amount of people interested in EV's, simple supply vs demand tells us the opposite.
You must be very young and fit I'm 31 and I need 4 layers in these 5c days. I'd rather go from warm home into warm car. It's 4 steps from door to car by the wayI don't need any of that. I get into a car that very rarely needs any heating. I invariably put the blower on just to keep the windows clear on a cold day. Even on the days when I am driving to the gym wearing shorts.
I'd have needed to walk half a mile in bitterly cold windy conditions to get to my car to need to put the heater on, certainly not after walking out my front door from a warm home, across the road and into my car. You have an even shorter walk, your car is on the drive.