it's a 10 year old tesla with a highly degraded batteryt. at that point, I would expect the car to need a brand new battery. My guess is that's roughly how much tesla can afford to deliver him a new battery. So I don't really see the problem.
Where I live, cars over 10 years old still make up a good chunk of the used car market.
Someone buying a used car really can't afford to gamble that it'll need $26k in repairs out of the blue one day. EVs need modular, standardized, cheaper to replace batteries if they are ever going to be mainstream enough to replace gas cars.
The 10 year old cars you are talking about are ICE, right? Cars whose designs and parts have an entire country's worth of infrastructure to repair?
That doesn't apply to EVs yet- especially not to Tesla's earliest models. And I don't think it will be a barrier to increased adoption either.
At least in my case, if i keep my hybrid for ten years, I would expecto have to rplace the battery and the cost would be ~1/4 of the car. This is one reason I typically sell my car when the maint costs start to increase.
