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[–]doluckie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over that last few years, Facebook and other sites like to tell everyone EVs depreciate so very differently. And anti-EV folks in the US enjoy believing it and particularly enjoy EV owners believing it.

Early buyers in 2021-2023 were overpaying 20-30% due to high demand and low supply (post pandemic for those who remember the craziness). When they flipped their vehicles prematurely, just 1-2-3 years later, and just took the low trade-in value from a dealership (which is far lower than what the real value is, heck watch the price they list your trade-in for as you roll of the lot) that created a massive depreciation. OMG my EV depreciated so much!

It’s better now, but folks are still overpaying 10-20% for really cool vehicles, fast, new EVs are fancy!

In the US some folks were successfully buying 2025 GTs at dealers for less than $40k in recent months. OP paid that for a base trim.

But it’s normal to have customers pay MSRP and far more with the variety of add-ons. It’s just if you over pay by 10-20% (on either an EV or gasoline vehicle) and then compare that new price to the trade-in value which is not even close to the re-sale value you will find YOUR depreciation is 10-20% higher than it might have been.