Unfuckinglikely
You say that, but this year or next year EVs are going to be the cheaper option to buy on top of being massively cheaper to run and nicer to drive.
Since when ? EVs are incredibly expensive. I can get second hand Suzuki for 10k. Where am I getting an ev at that price ?
A leaf that does 100km. Useless
The article is about new cars, so your second hand Suzuki isn’t really relevant.
Believe it or not, cars first launching this year aren’t available as 10 year old second handers. But they will be in 2035.
Edit: Australia never really had any electric cars for sale after that first batch of 2012 Leafs other than $100,000 Teslas, so we’ve currently got a big gap in the used market. Mostly because we didn’t have fuel efficiency standards, funnily enough…
Well it is. Because it wasn’t that expensive to begin with.
10 year EVs are still incredibly expensive. Especially considering you can’t really Dona second hand ev. If the battery is 40k to replace. Then nobody is going to waste time with a second hand.
Last year the cheapest EV was $48,000. Today you can get an EV for $38,000. Battery prices are falling by 30% per year, you’re going to see $26,000 EVs in just a year or two.
By 2035, ten year old EVs won’t be expensive. We’ve also got much better batteries today - it’s really only the Leaf that cooks them, 2012 Teslas are doing fine.