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You can buy EVs secondhand. You'd be hard pressed to find a sub 10k EV "beater" but there are plenty of used EVs in the 15-25k price range in my area, and are equivalent in features to used cars in the same bracket.
You can't really. The world is a bit bigger than you think and mass adoption global cars like byd dolphin etc. Only started appear 4 years ago. So how can a second hand ev market develop?
Huh, I didn't realize you can't buy second hand EVs. Gonna have a tough time explaining the my wife why the Mustang is gone.
You know other countries have had EVs for just as long as the US?
Nope, prove it then. Show me the numbers I'll wait. 2nd hand ev market is basically non existent still.
Maybe just try googling it? Nah, you'd probably whine about being told to do that...
https://www.theparking.eu/used-cars/#%21%2F%3Fid_energie=2&id_pays=23
Took less than 2 minutes, and there you go, looks like you can view used EV listings in ~60 different countries on that site alone.
What a small world view you must have, to think that used electric cars only exist in the USA....
That's like what, around 2000 cars listed there? Versus hundreds of thousands of ice cars? Lmao
One site. 2 minutes.
And if you'd bothered to actually look, you would have noticed that there were 500,000+ EVs listed.
You were wrong about a non-existent used EV market. It's not a big deal, just take the L, learn from this to think first, then form an opinion, and then post, and move on with your life.
Just to thoroughly put this to bed... Here is the per-capital EV adoption rates in 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country
The US is nowhere close to the leaders on that chart. EV markets are actually better in many other places than they are in the US, and speaking from experience, I had no trouble finding a wide selection of secondhand EVs to purchase when I bought my car about a year and a half ago.
In summary... You're painfully, obviously wrong, and that is okay. Continuing to defend a point solely "supported" by ignorance and prejudice, is not.
Your own picture says 0.5M vs 18 MILLION. come on dude.
So what? 500,000 is still 250x better than the number you pulled out of your ass instead of actually reading and researching. It's 250x better than what you thought.
And in case you missed it, there are plenty of other countries that have a higher ratio of EVs to ICEs than the US.
So the fact that there are more EVs to ICEs in other countries, and the fact that it's possible to buy an EV in the US despite it's low market penetration, means your statement about buying secondhand EVs...
Is absolutely fucking wrong.
If you want to argue this point further, show up with some actual data to defend your point in your next post, like maybe an article talking about how there are 0 used EV sales outside the US. Otherwise, you aren't arguing in good faith, and you can be ignored for being a pissant little ankle-biter picking a fight for the sake of fighting.
Nah dude you should really concede this. It's hard to find a good 2nd hand ice car fit for many working class people as is and you're claiming that 40 TIMES smaller market is OK? Crazy, absolutely bonkers - I suggest you take a break and touch some grass.
Ah, so nothing but rhetoric pulled out of your ass is your only defense for being a bigot. You are now blocked for being a disingenuous troll. Go bother someone else.