Congrat's on your EV purchase ObeWan. You'll now understand what the EV smile is all about as you're probably wearing one already. The Nero is a good choice. Good range and well supported in NZ.
We purchased our Leaf in mid 2014 so have now had almost 7 years driving, and fuel savings, from it. Battery is down to about 65% State of Health so range is close to becoming an issue with our rural commuting distances but EVs Enhanced have battery exchange/replacement options for around $12K that is way less than the fuel savings we've enjoyed since owning the Leaf, or will save during the life of the new battery, depending on your viewpoint.
Keep in mind too that the battery degradation issue is largely a Leaf issue as they were designed to produce cheaply in order to gain a foothold for EVs in the international market, which they've done very successfully. To minimise manufacturing costs Leaf have no active thermal management of their batteries so degradation happens more appreciably (especially if fast charged) than for other EVs, all of which have battery cooling systems in place. Tesla for example are claiming the near release of a 'million mile battery' based on their newest technology. And while we're talking about Tesla there are a lot of questions regarding the Finnish guy's highly publicised blowing up of his Tesla because of a high battery replacement cost, including whether he had removed the battery prior to the stunt. Do some Googling for yourself.
In our case we installed a PV system to our previous property in order to capitalise on being able to maximise consumption of our own generation by charging the Leaf. That worked to a point but we're now on a new property and have installed PV again complete with the latest available technology and results look promising. Keep an eye on our business's website for a blog with details on that. Suffice to say that not buying petrol is very EV smile inducing currently
 
To address the naysayers we do find the range of the Leaf restrictive but we have a cranky old Holden Commodore that is put into service for out of province trips or to tow our trailer. This old oil burner has long since seen 1/4 million kilometres roll over but our intention is to nurse the old girl along until circumstances allow us to replace it with an EV that will do the same job. A Polestar 2 is nice to imagine in this regard but time and economic circumstances will dictate that. As is often said  'once you drive EV you don't go back to ICE!'  It's true!!
We purchased our Leaf in mid 2014 so have now had almost 7 years driving, and fuel savings, from it. Battery is down to about 65% State of Health so range is close to becoming an issue with our rural commuting distances but EVs Enhanced have battery exchange/replacement options for around $12K that is way less than the fuel savings we've enjoyed since owning the Leaf, or will save during the life of the new battery, depending on your viewpoint.
Keep in mind too that the battery degradation issue is largely a Leaf issue as they were designed to produce cheaply in order to gain a foothold for EVs in the international market, which they've done very successfully. To minimise manufacturing costs Leaf have no active thermal management of their batteries so degradation happens more appreciably (especially if fast charged) than for other EVs, all of which have battery cooling systems in place. Tesla for example are claiming the near release of a 'million mile battery' based on their newest technology. And while we're talking about Tesla there are a lot of questions regarding the Finnish guy's highly publicised blowing up of his Tesla because of a high battery replacement cost, including whether he had removed the battery prior to the stunt. Do some Googling for yourself.
In our case we installed a PV system to our previous property in order to capitalise on being able to maximise consumption of our own generation by charging the Leaf. That worked to a point but we're now on a new property and have installed PV again complete with the latest available technology and results look promising. Keep an eye on our business's website for a blog with details on that. Suffice to say that not buying petrol is very EV smile inducing currently
 To address the naysayers we do find the range of the Leaf restrictive but we have a cranky old Holden Commodore that is put into service for out of province trips or to tow our trailer. This old oil burner has long since seen 1/4 million kilometres roll over but our intention is to nurse the old girl along until circumstances allow us to replace it with an EV that will do the same job. A Polestar 2 is nice to imagine in this regard but time and economic circumstances will dictate that. As is often said  'once you drive EV you don't go back to ICE!'  It's true!!