If you don't resale you don't lose anything.

Just drive it till it's no longer operational or gift it away to a family member at some point and you get full value of what you paid for without a care in the world about second hand market.

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marssaxman a day ago | parent | next [-]

I care about the second hand market because that's where I'm going to get the car - the phenomenon of rapidly depreciating electric vehicles is all to the good for me! Resale value, though, is not something I care about at all.

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skeeter2020 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Cars don't just "stop working" with no residual value, so this isn't how it works. They start to require very expensive repairs and maintenance and it gets tough to determine what you should get done. And why would you give a family member a car that's giving you problems and not good enough for you? "Here, take this EV that's likely to require repairs costing 10x the value of the car."

	▲	scotty79 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If the cost of repairs is more than the benefit of you having this car, it's worth zero to you and you should scrap it, sell it for $1 or gift it to someone who has more favorable math than you regarding repairs. That's what I meant by stops working - stops working for you. No longer operational meant broken and not worth repairing.