I question how good the battery is for the next owner. At some point they'll start needing replacement modules. Then you're leapfrogging ICE vehicle repairs. With ICE, you'll have a catastrophic failure in some engines, particularly from junkie mfgs. But most of the engines last for a long time, longer than the rest of the car. Teslas and EVs only started to recently in the last 5-10 years become not a niche product. We'll see how long these Tesla batteries last. If they're anything like lithium batteries in hobby batteries or cell phone, that's going to be a problem for EVs that are older. Just from personal experience having some lipos and NiMH batteries around, the lipos don't last as long and are more sensitive to life shortening. Tesla designed their modules in a weird way, they are not at all serviceable. You can take apart say a Prius module and replace just the sub modules that are bad. In Tesla modules, the individual sub modules are basically 18650's or another similar size all glued together. The amount of excess packaging is laughable, its like opening up a Hershey peanut butter cup, its not just in the pack of 10, its in its own complete little sub package, then has cupcake wrapper around the cup, and sitting on a piece of cardboard, quite a bit of packaging just for one candy. That's like the Tesla module. Compare that with an intelligent design like the ones GM uses in a foil like bag.
Digressing, besides the motor and exhaust, many of the parts are the same on an EV and ICE car. Things that need servicing as a vehicle gets older. Brakes, wheel bearings, CV shafts, tie rods, ball joints, shocks, bushings. Teslas are not some super engineered car that somehow managed to overcome these issues. With you not replacing any of those things, they fall to the next owner. When I buy a car, I usually go through and replace all those things, and they need it because owners like you don't fix anything. Under the false impression their favorite car manufacturer is immune from physics and time. I didn't understand this until I was talking to someone, asked why they didn't do xyz, and they said it was because they were selling it in a couple years. That's the mentality of folks like you, just get it to the next owner. If everyone drove their car into the ground, they'd stay on top of the maintenance and wouldn't be unaware of festering problems.
