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Matt and Becky Walton are the first Honda Fit EV customers

Honda announced that it has delivered its 2013 Honda Fit EV to its first customer today in Southern California. 
 
Matt and Becky Walton, a couple from Ventura County, California, are the first customers to receive Honda's latest all-electric vehicle. The Walton's were the first to sign up for a 2013 Honda Fit EV lease, and were able to pick their new vehicle up at the Woodland Hills Honda dealership north of Los Angeles. 
 
"It's truly an honor to take delivery of the first Honda Fit EV and participate in the advancement of all-electric vehicles in the real world," said Matt. "The Honda Fit EV is not only a sustainable and energy efficient transportation option with the highest fuel-efficiency rating of any EV, but it has the added bonus of being fun-to-drive and can fully recharge from empty in less than three hours."
 
 
The 2013 Honda Fit EV debuted at Los Angeles' Auto Show last November. It has an EPA rating of 118 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalency) with a consumption rating of 29 kilowatt hours per 100 miles. The new Honda Fit EV also packs a 240 volt charger.
 
For now, the 2013 Honda Fit EV is only available for lease in certain parts of California and Oregon. The lease price is $389 per month over a three-year term, giving the vehicle a MSRP of $36,625. Leasing options will eventually reach the east coast in early 2013. 

Source: Honda


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36k?
By Manch on 7/23/2012 4:30:48 PM , Rating: 2
Since this is a lease does it qualify for the subsidies? or is that the subsidized price? Also, 89 mile range? under what conditions? Anybody got a link?




RE: 36k?
By Shig on 7/23/2012 5:11:23 PM , Rating: 2
36k is the full price, the dealership will get the tax rebate, the range is under the 5 cycle EPA mileage test. As a general rule of thumb, EV's lose the most range when going over 65mph (the high speed part of the EPA test).


RE: 36k?
By Spuke on 7/23/2012 5:22:57 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
As a general rule of thumb, EV's lose the most range when going over 65mph (the high speed part of the EPA test).
Good info, didn't know that.


RE: 36k?
By Howard on 7/24/2012 1:53:19 AM , Rating: 2
As a general "general rule of thumb", EVs lose more range the faster they are driven, period.


RE: 36k?
By Jaybus on 7/24/2012 8:50:09 AM , Rating: 4
Yes. It is in general true for any vehicle. The drag is Fd = 0.5*p*V^2*C*A, where p is the density of the air, V is the velocity of the vehicle with respect to the air, C is a constant coefficient of drag (related to vehicle's shape and size), and A is the area of the cross section of air that is being affected by the vehicle. Because the velocity term is squared, going twice as fast requires at least 4 times as much force. Engine type has nothing to do with it. Gasoline engine cars also lose range the faster they are driven.


RE: 36k?
By Apone on 7/24/2012 11:59:35 AM , Rating: 3
Yet every morning on my way to work, I still see at least one Toyota Prius flying down the freeway at 85 mph...


RE: 36k?
By aebiv on 7/24/2012 12:07:48 PM , Rating: 2
That's better than most of them out here by San Francisco that get in the fast lane (and/or carpool lane) and go 10MPH under the speed limit.


RE: 36k?
By Manch on 7/24/2012 12:11:04 PM , Rating: 2
or....

...a couple people behind them cussing because they're slow rolling the on ramp

...the left lane without enough juice left to pass.

...pulling out of their lane and making everyone hit the brakes because they dont have enough acceleration to speed up to the flow of traffic.

When I lived in VA I would hate when these damn things rode the left lane all the way to the merge point. They didnt have enough power to get ahead of the vehicle they were trying to pass so they just swerved in forcing you to hit the brakes.

other cars do this too, but nothing is more infuriating than one of these or an econobox jamming up the freeway, or the main roads because they cant get out of there own way.


RE: 36k?
By Apone on 7/24/2012 12:24:40 PM , Rating: 2
@ Manch and aebiv

LOL good call on the hybrid vehicle shenanigans; We have those problems here too in SoCal except the common denominator issue that really infuriates me (in addition to EV's/hybrids' acceleration) is when a gasoline vehicle attempts to freeway merge but don't accelerate enough upon merging which makes the entire right lane bottleneck and everyone ends up slamming on their brakes. It's like people don't know that long stretch of road for merging is to have sufficient time & distance to match the freeway traffic's speed...


RE: 36k?
By Manch on 7/24/2012 2:06:12 PM , Rating: 2
Yup!
Ecobox a-holes that dont realize there car has no power & SUV f-sticks that are trying to be "frugal" on gas....absolutley maddening!


RE: 36k?
By Manch on 7/24/2012 8:05:06 AM , Rating: 2
I remember the fusion EV supposed to be 39K before rebate so i was curious about the price diff


LOL!
By FITCamaro on 7/23/12, Rating: 0
RE: LOL!
By Howard on 7/24/2012 1:52:37 AM , Rating: 1
I don't want to pull an alkemyst here, but are you broke and/or have a net worth of less than $50k?


RE: LOL!
By WalksTheWalk on 7/24/2012 9:14:32 AM , Rating: 2
Not everyone wants those kind of monthly car payments. My wife and I keep ours around 60 months at $350/month or less; with one vehicle payment at a time, if possible.

It has nothing to do with net worth or net income, but rather our values towards such purchases. There's also the opportunity cost of either spending those dollars on a depreciating asset versus something else that has more value to us.


RE: LOL!
By Dr of crap on 7/24/2012 8:30:55 AM , Rating: 2
That's what I thought.

I'd NEVER lease for that kind of cash - ever!

Of course I'd not BUY the damn thing either - $36k really.
I'll go buy 2 cars for that price and have some left over for a few tanks of gas!


RE: LOL!
By Shig on 7/24/2012 4:08:06 PM , Rating: 2
Why is the cost of gas vs electricity always absent from these discussions?

Why are the overall yearly maintenance costs of an ICE car vs an EV always absent from these discussions?


Oz
By macca007 on 7/24/2012 3:02:06 AM , Rating: 2
So for us Aussies we can add another 20-30k on top of that price like the rest of these hybrids/electrics sigh.....




Price is out of reach.
By SAN-Man on 7/24/2012 12:41:20 PM , Rating: 2
All the car manufacturers are trying to recoup their R&D and material costs the first few years by pricing these vehicles quite high.

I can afford a $36,000.00 vehicle but if I am spending that sort of cash, it's not on a Honda Fit, electric or not.

These companies need to understand they may have to recoup their costs over a decade, not in two or three years and price these cars accordingly.

On another note, many employers in my city are installing electric vehicle charging stations and letting employees charge for free. I think this is really great, a nice benefit. If my employer were to do this the likelihood I would seriously consider one of these vehicles would increase significantly.




Do some math
By KOOLTIME on 7/25/2012 8:07:30 PM , Rating: 2
Some math if you buy a so called gas guzzler type car that gets 20mpg and costs 15k, then you buy one of these new cars that get 40mpg and the care costs 36k how much gas to save vs the 21k extra cost of the car is worth the extra price you will have to drive it 10-15 years on an average driver to make it even pay for itself saving gas.

Electric how much electric bill to charge it back up vs gas cost. Electricity is not much cheaper then gas on the monthly bill. Again no savings.

To much hype not enough reality due to the rip off consumer pricing they are handing out with these hybrids electric cars.

If they make the cars realistically priced to have real value then maybe but as of now they are all just over priced over hyped up junk, that's made to suck more money out of consumer wallets in bad times.

36k for a car that's barley bigger then an average wheel-barrel is simply crazy.




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