Worth considering too that those of us with late model EVs should be regarded as 'early adopters' who have purchased at prices that will only fall as technology, manufacturing scale and market competition increase. All these factors will act to bring EVs down to parity with ICE pricing, and below. We should be prepared to see our cars shed resale value as the EV market gains maturity, but at the same time enjoy the far cheaper energy and maintenance cost an EV provides.
These economies will filter down through the second hand market as they already have in the car market here in NZ where huge numbers of used Leafs imported from Japan and elsewhere have both driven EV uptake strongly and made buying a new NZ Leaf very questionable economically. Similar forces will effect the new car market as Tesla and the Chinese manufacturers battle for market share.
Sure EVs will continue to add new features and gadgetry (though at a controlled rate in order to mitigate any Osborne effect) but there will always be those owners who are on restricted budgets and they will be all too happy to forgo a few baubles in favour of an affordable EV for them and their family. They are the people who search out secondhand computers and smartphones for the same reason.
My strategy regarding laptops has to buy the best quality available with the extra cost being justified by the usable life of the computer being up to 10 years. Then rinse and repeat. The purchase of our Polestar2 was pretty much done with the same reasoning. In 10 years time the car world will be a very different beast to what what it is now so no point in trying to foresee what, if any, replacement will be required by then.
