dhanson865
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OrientExpress said:let me put it this way, what thing in an ICE has the equivalent weight in determining the value of that kind of automobile, and how is it measured.
Mileage is the ice equivalent. You have 4 scenarios for ICE vs EV
1. ICE only, every single mile driven involved using that gasoline engine.
2. Hybrid it would be common for the gasoline engine to run about half as many miles as the car sees.
3 Plugin Hybrid, it varies based on size of battery and amount of wall charging and a dozen other variables but the gasoline engine is likely to be used half as many miles as the car sees all the way down to no use at all. These would be tougher to categorize.
4. BEV, no gasoline engine, miles only is practically irrelevant to the health of the power train, the bigger concern is temperatures exposed to, state of charge (time spent at/near 100%, time spent below 5%, number of charge cycles. A Leaf in Washington state charged all the time on L2 with 100,000 miles can easily be worth more to me than a Leaf in Arizona with 10,000 miles on it.
The further away from a pure gasoline engine you go the less significant the mileage is to determining the value of the vehicle.
You might say that mileage isn't a good metric to begin with but take a look at the valuation formulas and they all rely heavily on mileage.