Come on people - I want a EV, but as a used car buyer I'm stuck with the garbage you bought 3-7 years ago.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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EVs generally hold up better over time than ICE vehicles. For one thing they don't vibrate themselves to pieces. You should get the battery checked out before buying and there will be some degradation but an EV will last basically forever.
Most vibration comes from the road not the engine, and the worst is road hazzards. Engines are Carefully balanced and isolated.
Not that it matters, where I like rust from winter road salt is what kills cars. And cars still last a long time if you care for them.
For one thing they don’t vibrate themselves to pieces
..what?
but an EV will last basically forever
Tell that to my 5 year old Ioniq that already had a catastrophic motor/transmission unit failure that would have totaled the car if it hadn't been covered by warranty.
Batteries usually hold up long enough, unless you're looking at 10+ year old cars.
The real issue is that the mechanics have no clue on what to check at the annual services, so they'll let people down on the brakes, suspension, ball joints and AC fluids long before any warning lamp ever lights up on their computers. These things are assumed to break even when following the manufacturer guidelines.
How is that different from any other used car?
Battery tech has come a long way since then. But I do think a 7 year old ev is great as a commuter car
My EV, not a Tesla, is 8 years old and still going strong. Best commuter car I have ever owned over 40 years of driving.
Battery replacement is very expensive, like at least 10 grand for a Tesla.
Okay but the studies I've seen suggest that EV batteries typically last between 15 and 20 years.
Like any other part it varies on use, environmental conditions, and luck of the draw. Like gas engines typically last over 100k miles, but not always. Some people start getting poor performance from their phone battery months after buying.
Phone batteries and EV batteries may have chemistry in common, but the tech is totally different.
Even the chemistry is different for some (LiFePo/LFP)
True, but I was trying to give the more generous interpretation of what the person I was replying to meant. Hence the "may" in my wording, as in, "sometimes it's true"
I bet it would grow a lot faster if the US got China's cheap electric cars as an option
with how anti-EV the gop is, doub t it.
Didn't the EV tax credits go away? I haven't been following very closely.
If so, then isn't 6% growth still kinda good? At least it didn't shrink within the first year of the "price hike", right?
There's also that cultural shift that resulted in people's Teslas getting burned or vandalized. I would imagine that some many would-be Tesla buyers changed their minds because they wouldn't want their new car to get attacked.
So with the tax rebate ending and the Tesla destruction, I'm oddly kinda optimistic about that 6%. It's still progress
Didn't the EV tax credits go away?
End of September I think?
Yes; you have to order by end of September.
The usa is on decline, so the numbers add up
They're all expensive here. Give me a 10k China EV please