my ELECTRIC CAR is now WORTHLESS EVen the DEALERSHIP doesn’t want it back! EVs are DISPOSABLE JUNK!!

Lee, I bought a brand new Audi Etron RS GT in Jan 2023 for £130K. I sold it in Feb 2024 for £65K! This was the best price I could achieve, even though I had only done 4300 miles. This cost me nearly £1000 per week in depreciation and over £16 per mile! They are a complete con, driven by political motives.

Just got a 5 year old Tesla M3 with boost and FSD for $15K usd. You don't buy a new Ev, you lease it.. you buy the used ones tho. Yall buying new EVs just subsidizing my future purchases.

How many thousands of mileage you have to drive an ev car before it’s environment friendly compared to regular cars not to mention the batteries for those phones on wheels .😂 thanks to you hippies the industry popping up shitty cars that won’t last ,all kinds of energy bills went up like a rocket .all in the name of some fictional idea oh it’s eco friendly. you eat it raw .

Let me just say how much I love your complaining and negative equity. Have you ever considered why dealers offer you such low returns on your investment? It’s because you are so good at complaining. You give their cars a very public bad name and they are repaying (or not repaying you) as the case maybe. We are the beneficiaries and you do the paying. Thank you.

People still doesn't understand benefits and value of EV's. And remember, cars are not for investment.

Tell your friends what a lemon this guy is who doesn’t understand electric cars

Teslas have 400k miles on them and there are plenty!!! The batteries can be fixed, they don’t have to be replaced and at a similar cost to an engine repair, EV’s are the way forward if you buy the right one!!!

Because you purchased the wrong electric car, this isn’t the same with a Tesla, used Tesla sales are up 270%!!!

elcctric cars are junk. literally e-waste when used. battery not serviceable, on paper you can just swap cells. in reality, you put a 100% bunch of cels in an 80% battery, the controller still doesnt like it. i had that on a prius. it still sitting gathering moss. it will rot there, i lost interest.
the 2.0 tsfi audi is just leagues ahead on servicability, however bad a rap they get. i just had to learn how to do some stuff in cvds, but at least the programming tools are available for petrol cars.
in cornwall, only ev's we see usually are business fleet guys in teslas or disability cars. the minor percentage of people who buy electric cars , is just so their costa cup is happy.

electric cars are that bad….. my mazda rotary was actually less trouble. i shall return to that path instead of electric.

No one wants a used electric Car! The battery cost as much as a new one and they get not better over time! Taycan is a phenomenal car but Electric Cars are doomed because of the battery!

Your Battery replacement cost is exactly what you deserve but completely false
How dare you come to Australia just because I invited you doesn’t mean you can but it’s good to see our border forces recognised what an idiot you are & sent you straight home saying no more winging Poms especially on the You Tube

I’d try it for £25000

Internal combustion engines all day long. EVs are useless junk, the amount of EVs I've seen either broken down or on fire is no joke.

So do you sell your car?

To sum this up. On the way to airport he got frustrated that he didn't know how to to download an app for a charger. Went to another charger and had to wait, and had to pay a quid for the toilet but had know cash so got some from an ATM that charged him and he bought a coffee that he didn't want so going to the toilet cost him a fiver. This pushed him over the edge and he decided to ditch his porche ev for 911. His car cost new £120k he has still got £60k left on finance but the best price he has been quoted is £40k. Apart from an issue with the heater which happened while filming there seems to be nothing particularly wrong with his car, but if he needed to replace his battery – which he definitely doesn't need to do – it would cost £60k which would be uneconomical to do. This make him make assertion that EVs are disposable and his car is worthless. He thinks he has lost £80k due to his ev and warns other people that this will happen to them as well if they buy an EV. Now he doesn't know what to do. My advice, untwist your knickers, keep the car, it has a 8 year warranty on the battery, so if the catesrophic issues with the battery happen then you have this for another 7 years. The most depreciation happens in the first year, if you keep it for another 4 or 5 years the most the car can depreciate is just half of what it has already depreciated i.e., then it would be actually worthless but my guess would youd get £20k. One last thing, just download the charging app it could have saved you a few quid. £5 for a crap, now that's something to complain about!

The old man dark blue colour is already an L

cant agree mate, have a tesla for 4 years now, done around 150k miles on it, tesla charging network over the years never had a miss, also doesnt take me 40 minutes to charge it, 20-25 minutes im good to go, its the time of having a coffe, charger is located on an exit 1km from the high way, theres 40 chargers currently available at this one location alone. It seems to me that you did an uninformed poor choice to buy a porsche, convenience and fit for purpose, what you are saying is not true and is misleading, so its not very nice of you, cheers mate

The thing about today, companies are mass producing them like a lot more than the demand. If it keeps going like this, the emissions from production will set back the entire progress they’re trying to achieve in the beginning

Well if you can charge it overnight at your own garage is completely different story. I am not sure about Porsche but Tesla batteries have cells and some of those cells can be replaced instead of the whole battery pack.

Flipping hell…
Thanks for the information.
I was actually beginning to consider getting one instead of the 718 GTS which I always wanted. Good luck

We live in Tasmania, about half an hour out of Launceston at the moment. Our main transport is a Toyota fortuner 3litre diesel for towing and trips to mainland Australia plus a 22year old SWB Rav 4, which is the most reliable vehicle I have ever owned (it has never broken down) but a bit thirsty. However last week I went over to Melbourne, bit the bulletand bought a 3 year old Nissan Leaf which is in absolute concourse condition for $25,000, less than half new price (12,000 pounds) this is purely for our local motoring with the longest trip it will ever do is a 75 mile round journey, always charged at home so no need for public charging which unfortunatley had to do only once in Melbourne, which proved to be a real PITA but I must say I met some really nice people at the chargers, with a bit of blitz spirit 'we are all in tis together and have no choice but we will make the most of a bad situation' attitude. After watching your videos Lee I would never buy a new EV for our main transport but for my very niche requirements its the perfect solution. Keep on keeping on and I hope things worked out for tou

Sorry you seem to have more money than sense! Yes ev’s depreciate more than an ice but surely you knew that before buying the car! The batteries last a helluva lot longer than you make out and suggesting these cars are disposable is just nonsense. Utterly biased review

An electic Porsche is like an Apple Iphone. This says nothing about most people who prefer to buy a Jap practical car.

Electric drive is superior in every way

There are plenty of issues that are specific or far worse for high end electric cars like mercedes, audi, bmw, porche……ok mostly german electric cars.

Those that have tesla supercharger access and home charging it helps a ton.

The immediate depreciation is bad on EVs and its not helped by the subsidies that drop the percieved price.

Im fat, 55 years old and drive a 2003 Golf. But it was easy to understand that a Taycan for €160.000 and drives 186 miles on a good day is a bad buy. Fu*k this leftist agenda!!

War n peace, interesting but a long wait for the punch line. 😂

HOLY SHHH. 20 MINUTES TO SAY: " LUXURY CARS DEPRECIATE FAST" DUH…

You bought an electric Porsche???

You took a long time to get to the point. An ICE car will of course not need petrol or maintenance and will never go wrong. Further it will not lose any value in the first twelve months. Good luck with that. You bought a car worth more than the cost of a starter home in some areas and that was your choice. I never understood what the attraction is for this type of car is but Freud had a few ideas.

It's not amazing that even a smart guy like you got hosed by a car company.

Here in the US, I bought a VW ID.4 for $60K two years ago. I had been on a waiting list to get it. At that time, some people were actually selling their used EV for MORE than they paid for it because demand was high and supply low. That led me to think it would not depreciate any worse than any other car. That was a massively incorrect assumption. After paying $20k into it, I can only get 25k out of it. Buying a new car is always a loss, but man, this one stings. I'm never buying ANY new car again.

Can you imagine what all those dead cell batteries are doing to the environment. These manufacturers should be held responsible for the disposal of the waste they created.

if the battery last for 300k miles than you can just do the math on how much it cost per mile. you can check the health of the battery when you buy a used ev to figure out if it is worth it. Just like you can and should have a gas car checked out before you buy it.

your best bet with any car is buy it keep it if the loan is 5 years in 5 years you will owe 0 and it will be worth some thing you will have equity. if it is worth nothing but it still runs than keep driving it with out a car payment.

right off the bat i think your a moron you cant buy something brand new Retail and expect to sell it for what you paid the next day could you imagine you buy a couch on monday at a furniture store and expect to sell it back for the same price on tuesday.

The company i work for generally considers asset non-repairable when the costs of repair/maintenance exceeds 60% of the purchase price.
Which basically means dispose of the asset.

I have been scouting the market for a second hand electric car, they are plenty of them but at 12,500… the first main thing that must be replaced is the battery before it reaches its usage by limit, most Manufactures recommend a full battery replacement at 300,000km which will set you back 12,500.

They are still very cheap to run but are expensive to buy and if something goes wrong very very expensive to maintain.

I would like some to prove me wrong make a video about it.

I'll stick with my petrol powered VW Scirocco.

this is why i don´t buy over 1k€ phone

I am here. I will take over and fix this. I am so deeply embarrassed and deeply deeply sorry on behalf of Porsche and our Engineering Family of Companies.

This guy is an idiot!

BYD is pushing it's 10k USD cars, at least until recently when they talked about 7.7k cars. Mobius of Kenya is on the internet saying their 5k pickup trucks are selling nicely.

Buys a new EV, doesn’t do his research. Sells it, loses £20k, cost of his finance AND still needs to buy a new car.

Loooooool