Don’t buy unless you like parting with your hard-earned cash for no discernibly good reason. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
You ought to be careful when buying a used car – because you never know. Buying a used EV, on the other hand, is easy.
Because you always know.
A used car might have been in a flood. It might have a tired engine or a slipping transmission. A used EV will have a used battery. And that’s not something you want to buy when it comes to these devices – which I think is a good way to think of them because they are more analogous to a smartphone or laptop than a car.
Except in one very important way.
When your laptop or smartphone’s battery won’t hold a charge anymore, it might be worth buying a replacement. It isn’t with the devices styled EVs – because of the disproportionate cost of replacing the used battery relative to the value of the shell of the used device, itself.
As a case in point, consider the owner of a seven-year-old Tesla Model X whose device has lost about 32 percent of its original charge capacity, not only reducing how far he can drive the device before he must stop to add charge but also – by dint of the latter – decreases the intervals between these waits.
He waits sooner – and more often.
And that feedback loop will wax, as the battery loses more and more of its charge capacity.
Mommygov will get one for me and it will work fine in zero degree weather?
The horn honks and it has a faux hopey changey Pepsi logo color scheme!
Tolar Porvex/Volar Torpex/Polar Vortex!