You’re right, they are a good fit. If all you do is commute short distances, have a garage, own your home, and want to install an EV charger. And have terrible resale value and have a paper weight once the battery goes.
There’s a reason the used car market for EV’s practically doesn’t exist: people who want a car but don’t care if it’s EV or not see all these drawbacks. How else do you explain terrible EV resale value?
The people who are buying EVs are basing the purchase decision on the fact it’s an EV and don’t care about the drawbacks or differences, so they’ll buy new. These are not price sensitive consumers. An EV to them is more than a car, it’s a part of their personality and persona. Which is fine, to each their own.
> How else do you explain terrible EV resale value?
Does the data actually show that? I've got a 2021 Mach E Premium that was ~$54k new at the time I bought it (prices were all over the place). I got a $7,500 tax rebate on it. That's $46,500 cost. I see used ones listed for ~$39,000. That's 84% of it's value retained over soon to be three years. Is that really poor resale value? A lot of cars I've owned in the past had way worse resale value after a similar length of time.
And for the longest time Teslas had positive resale value, and the had some of the highest held value in the auto industry. It wasn't until Tesla started aggressively cutting prices this became untrue.
There's certainly some EVs of there with poor resale value, but they're also generally some of the worst EVs out there.
> If all you do is commute short distances, have a garage, own your home
There’s a reason the used car market for EV’s practically doesn’t exist: people who want a car but don’t care if it’s EV or not see all these drawbacks. How else do you explain terrible EV resale value?
The people who are buying EVs are basing the purchase decision on the fact it’s an EV and don’t care about the drawbacks or differences, so they’ll buy new. These are not price sensitive consumers. An EV to them is more than a car, it’s a part of their personality and persona. Which is fine, to each their own.