Not really. A poster threw out what it would take for him to buy an EV as a second vehicle, you replied, and a used Bolt does not meet the criteria he laid out - there too expensive up front - the ones with the extended warranty at least.
And then you tried comparing it to a Lincoln navigator for an operational cost. Laughable. Why not a Mach truck ?
It's Mack truck, not Mach.
The Navigator just happens to be the vehicle that I have to compare operating costs to. The Bolts also have very good front seat legroom, which is important to me being 6'7". So they have that in common, good legroom for front seat passengers. It's my car, I can compare to anything I want to compare it to. Other people have the prerogative to ignore my comparisons if they so choose.
We need a 2nd vehicle, at least occasionally. Maybe the person I was responding to doesn't really "need" a 2nd vehicle. But we do. My Navigator costs a lot to operate, even with no payments to be made. Do you care to suggest something else that's suitable for a 6'7" person?
To take the argument to it's logical conclusion, then,
"I want to downsize from my Navigator to something that is smaller and cheaper to operate, most of the time it's just me in the vehicle and the mileage is terrible"
"The Civic and Corolla do not have good legroom and/or headroom for a 6'7" person, so they are not acceptable"
"I can buy an Accord or Camry, but they cost more"
"The Bolt has good legroom and headroom for me, and I like EVs. I don't need to carry adults in the back seat, so it's an option"
simple as that.
Of course one might add,
"The ID.4 is a much more substantial vehicle and used examples have popped up for less than $20K"
And you might have something there, but anyway.
The other alternative, for us, to selling the Navigator and getting something else, might be to sell the Navigator and just ride Uber when I need it. I can ride Uber to the one train station in this metro which will get me fairly near to my office in about 40 minutes plus the time it takes to get the Uber and the 4 stop bus transfer to my office. About an hour and 20 minutes total, which if planned out is fine.
But it is almost 30 miles to the office, and if I absolutely, positively have to be there now due to some piece of datacenter equipment going down, riding public transportation is not an option. And that's going to be an expensive Uber ride.
This also ignores the fact that the Mach-E is on a lease. We need "something else" to drive to balance out the miles on the lease, or, just commit to buying it out now and to heck with the miles on the car.
So compared to all this, from an operating cost perspective, a used EV, even a Bolt, seems like a reasonable comparison to buying a used ICE car or hybrid in good condition. I have looked at hybrids and there isn't much 2017+ that is cheaper than a Bolt. I would never use public DC fast charging. I would use the slow the L2 chargers at my office, because the electricity is even cheaper than it is at my house.
