More EV FUD debunking. A friend triggered me by saying "I'm not buying a second-hand EV, who would buy a third-hand one? I'll be stuck with it!" That's utter nonsense, I thought, there are quite a lot of third-hand Renault Zoe/Nissan Leaf/Tesla Model S around these days. But I kept my mouth shut and checked it out first.
To carry out a bit of research I needed to pick a market. I picked the UK just because it's a market I'm very familiar with. Tackling specifically the "I'm going to be stuck with a car nobody wants" angle, let's forget all the running cost arguments (we know EVs are cheaper to run in almost all circumstances, and cleverer people than I have done the maths on that). The focus here is on depreciation, because the premise of my friend's comment is an old EV will be so devalued as to be prac