https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQz4aQjtY0&feature=youtu.be
Maybe not too surprising on this one. I hear the range on these are not great especially if you drive them spiritedly. And given it’s a first gen product on a new tech, no one really knows what these will be worth 5 - 10 years from now.
I say this as someone who likes the Taycan, but EVs are appliances. Say what you want about its selling price if its justified or not, but it’s still more of a piece of tech where the battery will degrade with its already limited range.
Unless there’s a plan to cheaply replace and upgrade batteries, I forsee every EVs to depreciate tremendously in just a few years.
Just my personal opinion of course.
As someone intimately familiar with battery technology, modern batteries will degrade at a rate about one half of that of what you see now on 10-year-old EVs (which hold ~80-85% of their max capacity). And cobalt-free LFP batteries barely degrade at all, they have projected lifetimes of 20-30+ years, and are in all standard-range Teslas among others.
And they continue to work even after they have degraded that much, they will go on to 70, 60%, often even 50% capacity before they start dying off. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Taycan still has a decent useable battery capacity in 20-25 years.