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Originally Posted by cooolone2
The honeymoon with all the EV's will hit a wall and begin effectuating buyer's remorse soon as all the EV batteries begin to reach the end of their shelf lives! There really is no secondary market for "used" battery systems yet, and until the secondary market develops whereas battery systems are "refurbished" and done cheaper than OE replacement, those cars aren't going to have a resale market... Who's going to buy a 120-150k mile 8-10yr old EV that's going to need a $20 power system replacement? Lol...
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The average lifetime of an EV battery is 200,000 miles. Tesla claims 300,000 to 500,000 miles. There is a Tesla being driven in Germany that now has 950,000+ miles and still on its original battery.
How many people in this country take their cars to that kind of milage? If anything, you're actually better off buying a 150k mile used EV and enjoy it for another 150k miles. A similar ICE would cost thousands of dollars of maintenance to keep it running.