Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car (electrek.co)

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If Teslas weren't the embodiment of the technological enshittification of cars and the disrespect of their owner's rights to ownership and repair, it would have been a pretty good occasion to buy a cheap EV.

If you could dissociate the brand from its owner like he dissociates with reality, that is.

[+] sefra1@lemmy.zip -9 points 3 days ago

Electric cars with used and dead batteries have no resale value.

How surprising

[-] Asetru@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago

That's not the point. Combustion engines with too much mileage have no resale value either, but that's not the point, too. Electric cars usually give you easy ways to check for battery health, if anything it's much easier to assess the state of a car for electric ones. This is about nobody wanting to be associated with musk.

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 2 days ago

My 13 year old electric car is doing fine.

I still won't touch a Tesla until Musk is removed, and they start supporting right to repair. Even then, their reputation for quality and customer support is hard to get past.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago

Part of the problem is it's hard to tell whether a battery has been treated well or like shit prior to buying it used. Did they keep it charged to only 80-90% at home most of the time? Or did they supercharge it to 100% everyday? You kind of have to assume it's been treated like shit and degraded.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

the car will accurately report its projected range. Also that info is available over the canbus if you really want to look into it.

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

🤣 Teslas don't even report the mileage correctly, who the fuck actually is believing that shit without a car history.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That assumes the vehicle BMS is recalibrating itself properly and regularly. That's not a guarantee, especially with as many cells as vehicle batteries use.

Cell phone manufacturers just started doing that and displaying it recently, and even then not all manufacturers. And that's only one or two cells.

There are plenty of posts online of people saying their cars aren't getting anywhere near the displayed range as they age.

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That assumes the dealer or owner lets you. Granted that's enough for me to walk away from the sale, but generally I've not had a good track record with dealers letting me pull battery health figures as it's beyond what they understand (dealership training is very very poor) so it scares them. Owners generally are happy to provide me a print out.

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