mgemmell
Scottish chap
If I may offer a less analytical reason for leasing the battery (one that I also wrote in the Renault Zoe thread):
When I get my new Model S the battery will be mine and it will be new. I will not be very enthusiastic about going to a battery swap station with such a battery, so I will just not go, period.
How do you overcome this reluctance? Perhaps by leasing the battery. It isn't yours so you don't mind switching it for another.
Renault want to encourage battery swap - maybe because many people in continental Europe do not have a garage where they can charge overnight - so perhaps that is why they are leasing them.
When I get my new Model S the battery will be mine and it will be new. I will not be very enthusiastic about going to a battery swap station with such a battery, so I will just not go, period.
How do you overcome this reluctance? Perhaps by leasing the battery. It isn't yours so you don't mind switching it for another.
Renault want to encourage battery swap - maybe because many people in continental Europe do not have a garage where they can charge overnight - so perhaps that is why they are leasing them.