Buying a used EV is a crap shoot and could cost more to replace the failed battery than the vehicle is worth. A friend has a 10+ year old Prius that is on its third battery. The first replacement was done by her husband using a battery purchased from E-bay cost $4k not including her husband’s labor. The second replacement by a Toyota dealer ran $7k. With good maintenance an IC vehicle can often run 200,000 miles and not need an engine replacement.
It’s all Cloward-Piven, the point is to disrupt so that people won’t be able to afford personal transportation.