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Buying an electric car in 2022 is like buying the iPhone in 2007. I can also make comical platitudes. One thing that struck me while reading this is the author
by mdmglr 5y ago
Buying an electric car in 2022 is like buying the iPhone in 2007. I can also make comical platitudes. One thing that struck me while reading this is the author implies that he would consider the Taycan, a car that retails for > 100k USD, if it weren't for the lack of storage space. We are definately not in the same bracket so its hard to take this piece of writing seriously. I certainly cannot and will not consider spending that much on a car. Even the 70k USD asking for an i-pace is too much.
- KaiserPro 5y ago> author implies that he would consider the Taycan, a car that retails for > 100k USD Which is the same price as a tesla model x. However I get your main drift. I'm not pissing away 40-80k on a thing that will depreciate 3/4 of that value in 4 years. No matter how much the wife insists, buying a new car is a fool's errand.
- Handytinge 5y agoLooking at used Teslas for sale, almost all of them I can see ~ 3-6 years old in my country are only 10-20% cheaper than new. It seems currently they're depreciating 1/5 max in that 4 years.
- KaiserPro 5y agoCurrently all second hand cars in my country are not depreciating, this I suspect is because people are buying 30% less newer cars. (https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/uk-new-car-sales-29-below-pre-pandemic-level-2021-smmt-2022-01-06/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/uk-new-car-sales-29-b...) However Tesla are a special case, despite being single-handedly responsible for bringing down the reliability of the entire EV class, people still love them, and dont sell them (currently there are ~550 onsale in autotrader for the entire of the UK, compared to 440 renualt zoes)