Zac Held 
2011 Nissan Leaf Hatchback SL 4dr Hatchback (electric 1DD)
Love this car, but man it cost me.
 Its a great car.  The car itself is completely vanilla, but I love how smooth and quiet it is.  At stoplights I think my other gas car has something wrong with all the vibration.  The acceleration is linear and totally smooth.  Not visiting gas stations is awesome.   Its fun to sneak up on people in parking lots.  The range anxiety went away after a month of owning the car, although its starting to come back.  The BIG HOWEVER, I have had the car for over five years now, it has less than 60k miles and my battery capacity is now half of what it was when new.  I was a responsible battery charger, and live in a mild climate.  Since it is just out of warranty (4 years) its up to me to cover the cost of the replacement battery.  I can currently go about 40 miles if I don't use the heater, and my work is about 40 miles roundtrip.  I know all batteries degrade over time, and I was comfortable of having to replace it.  What totally caught me by surprise is the cost of a new battery; quoted by my dealer is $8000.  A quick blue book value of my car is about $6000.   The horrible depreciation of the car combined with the cost of a replacement battery, completely make the economics of owning this car a terrible deal.  For $8000 I could buy nearly twenty thousand gallons of gasoline!  At 25 miles per gallon I could travel 500,000 miles!   All these leafs are going to have to be converted to golf carts in retirement to get any value out of them.Update 2-18.  Car has about 68,000 miles now.  Still gets me back and forth to work, but due to battery degradation the heater is only allowed for small spurts to defrost the windows in the winter.  It is a great car durability wise since I have only had to change the tires so far, and drives like the day it was new.  We tend to drive it less miles now because the range anxiety of driving to new places is resurfacing.  Bad news is that battery degradation and the cost to replace it is crazy.  Buying a used one that doesn't need to go very far makes sense.  Today a 2011 leaf in my area goes for 5000-7000.  Not sure what a battery costs today, if its still $8000, no way that makes sense.  The battery needs to be closer to $1000 to even think of changing it.