[Pollard]

We have two vehicles. A 2001 F150 4x4 and a 2005 Ford Focus. Paid a few grand for each. Will I be able to buy a used EV for a few grand?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

My 2007 f150 is a basket case but it gets me and the dogs around. The wife however requires better transportation.

[Jim Noble]

“ Will I be able to buy a used EV for a few grand?”

Once the battery is dead.

[Gen.Blather]

“Will I be able to buy a used EV for a few grand?”

Well, yes. You can already buy a used EV for practically nothing. They look good, too. But the battery, depending on make and model, can run anywhere from $12,000-22,000 dollars. There’s a company in California that takes the battery assemblies apart, tests individual cells and then sell a “reconditioned” battery. But each of the cells is from an already used battery assembly, so, they’re already old. I understand that’s relatively cheap. The key term being relatively.

You get a five- or six-year-old gas car, and you can always fix whatever may be mechanically wrong, usually for not too much, and then you fill it with gas. The used EV can be gorgeous, but the battery is worth more than the car will be worth when you put the new battery in it.

[Does so]

Will I be able to buy a used EV for a few grand?

Yes.

With some engineering, it will be a suitable platform in which to install a turbocharged internal combustion engine!

[Svartalfiar]

We have two vehicles. A 2001 F150 4x4 and a 2005 Ford Focus. Paid a few grand for each. Will I be able to buy a used EV for a few grand?

Probably. Come time for new batteries, I bet a bunch of people might be selling theirs for almost nothing. Course, you'll be on the hook for $10-15M for the new batteries after you buy it for $5M..