Everyone has different definition of lifetime and very few keep theirs 40 years

I personally buy new and keep it for its lifetime, as defined by “needing more work than its value “. That has worked out to be 12-15 years for ICE cars. For an EV I’m reasonably confident will last longer and the vehicle Will still have a small amount of resale value based on batteries degrade rather than stop

Also I’ve seen quite a few articles like

• yahoo.com/…/study-makes-surprising-discovery-tesl…