>The original owner drives the EV. Then, as the EV battery gets close to it life expectancy, the seller tries to unload it because he/she does not want the expense of the new battery. The car resale value drops fast because nobody else wants to buy a ca that needs a new expensive battery soon.
Close enough IMO. Many of these things have good warranties on battery/drivetrain, and reasonably maintained the degradation can be minimal. Problem for the used car buyer is there’s no way a dealer is going to let you do the kind of poking about that would let you know if the owner abused the battery or treated it nicely any more than they’ll let you do an engine teardown to look for valve wear.
In the case of earlier EVs where the brand-new ranges were 80 or 150 miles, a badly treated car is pretty much poo. New ones are 250, 350, even 500 mile range.
Life in tech; the new is obsolete and worthless quickly.
Huh?
What does this even mean???