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Unless something changes in this industry, the only reasonable used cars to purchase will be ICE cars because of this battery issue. Even if the batteries were available, who wants to spend $10k to buy a new battery for their $10k used car?
Depends what the cost is. If you bought a 20k car for 10k and changed the battery, then it's fine. People do buy cars with engines on their way out to swap them to better ones.
This is a suckers bet. Every time I have bought a car that "only needs" something, it turns out that it needs a fuckton of other things. I'm just amazed how some people can wear a car down to a nub before something major goes bad.
The only time I came out ahead doing this was a car I bought strictly to part out.
Maybe the leaf isn't a good candidate for this, but the aftermarket industry will quickly catch up and surpass the OEM like they have been doing for many decades. There's so many aftermarket companies that specialize in selling improved parts where manufacturers have long since abandoned their customers.