>Let's take an imaginary model 3 that is 15 years old and it has 170k miles on the odometer. When the vehicle comes up for sale, a regular person could buy it

>Let's take an imaginary model 3 that is 15 years old and it has 170k miles on the odometer. When the vehicle comes up for sale, a regular person could buy it for $x, or a gigafactory will buy it for $x, put a new battery in it and then sell it for $y. Seems fine to me, and exactly what happens now if you buy a used vehicle as-is, or if an intermediary buy its, rebuilds the engine and trans, puts new tires on, etc. etc. and then sells it for cost+