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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
The luxury vehicles don’t hold their value because the people who can’t afford them new definitely can’t afford to have their car turn into a brick with $50K owing.
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No that's not the case. Like, at all. None of the luxury EVs are even old enough to have used ones be close to being outside the 8+ year/128000+km battery warranty. This idea that the all these batteries just brick is nonsense. It's a smaller risk than you transmission blowing right after the warranty or anything else.
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Oh, and they still don’t own a house to charge them.
And without an in-house charging point, a EV is functionally useless for many consumers.
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Are we still talking about luxury EVs? because I don't see a lot of Mercedes or Porches parked at apartments in general, nevermind EVs.
As for off street parking, it's definitely a challenge that needs addressing, but there's lots of solutions and even now their not "functionally useless". Having to charge up once every 7-14 days is not that onerous, and that's assuming that no workplace charging or apartment blocks don't or won't get chargers in the future.
Remember that Calagry in 2024 is not representative of most of the world and certainly not representative of even Calgary in 5 years. Norway and China have very high rates of EV ownership for people without off street parking and they are not "functionally useless" there. I know two people with houses that don't have a driveway so they charge their Teslas (both in Red Deer) with public chargers and have for years. It's a slight inconvenience, but it's not that difficult and a very far cry from "functionally useless".