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Hyundai IONIQ 6 SEL Drops to 1/3rd of MSRP, or $13,995, After 2 Years (fuelarc.com)
submitted 5 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
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Brutal depreciation... but also a really great market for used EV buyers.

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[โ€“] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My working theory is that EVs are being overvalued by the manufacturers with inflated MSRPs, and that the used market sort of reveals fair-market value in an unexpected way.

Some of that is true, because the devaluation is based off MSRP, while most EVs get purchased with some incentives.

But the real issue is people are scared to buy an off warranty EV because there still are not a lot of shops to fix them.

Around me, you can buy a lightly used Nissan Leaf for $7K or less. It's become the new teenager car.

This is why I don't get the Lemmy hippies whining about the high cost of EVs.

[โ€“] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

I had thought about the incentive angle. New EV buyers get a doubly hard pitch, because the used stock has the rebate priced in (neither the buyer nor seller views it as a car worth the MSRP, they both deduct the rebate).

I bought a Chevy PHEV with ~150,000 miles to daily drive with, and ya know, when it dies it dies. It was a few grand, it was the cheapest I could get and shockingly decent for the price, so I am that person in the electric beater XD