I mean this as a serious comment....EV's are closest in nature to our white goods. (Stay with me here). You don't buy a fridge or washing machine and trade up after three or five years. "Most" white goods users keep the item until it fails. And accept the zero value at the end.
With EV's and the reported high depreciation,but cheap running costs, plus the fact that second hand buyers will fear battery issues, it makes a lot of sense to keep an EV ten years plus, or until the battery expires. That way the initial high cost has far less impact. I'm a ten year plus car owner anyway, some going beyond twenty years.
But remember that there is a problem with battery disposal, and maybe the manufacturers should be made to deal with expired batteries. But the likelyhood is that they will be buried in a third world country. In my time in Customs, there were regular shipments of worn out white goods to Africa..............The details of which did not make sense, but there you go.
