Brutal depreciation… but also a really great market for used EV buyers.

  • excursion22@piefed.ca
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    18 days ago

    I’m quite happy with my decision to lease (Ioniq 5). Leaves me with a win win decision at the end of the term.

    This is an odd example to write an article on though. “We can’t find a catch,” they say. Mate, 95,000 mi is like 8x the typical mileage on a car by year. It might as well be 8 years old, which makes the pricing much more reasonable.

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      18 days ago

      If the car will make it to 200,000 miles, you’d expect a used one with 95,000 miles to be worth ~50% of original sales price.

      And that’s just the baseline. Some vehicles hold value exceptionally well, like my Toyota Tacoma, the used prices are absurd, it’s worth something crazy like 75%+ what we paid for it in 2021.

      Not so for a lot of EVs. I threw 3 examples into the article (Audi e-Tron, Dodge Charger Daytona, and then I guess the Ioniq 6 itself, the sporty ones with a speed markup). It’s newsworthy just because it’s unusual, it’s like the used market is saying something about the vehicle is not worth what the manufacturer thought it was worth on day one.