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I been thinking about this too as I am looking to buy my first EV.

With a ICE you look at the odometer when purchasing, outside of that you don't actually know whether that reading and the state of the engine gives you less range, less power or an indicator of parts failing.

With an EV, similar to other electronic devices, you get an actual number that tells you the life of the battery which allows you to infer anything you like in terms of what that would mean for the life of the vehicle.

It will take time for people to know the true life of an EV in the second hand market. The general public are skeptical of EV's, so it makes sense they would be all the more skeptical of them second hand.



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