A used EV that looked like a safe buy on Monday can be worth meaningfully less by Friday.
Not because anything changed in the car. Because the new model dropped. Or the range got revised. Or nobody's quite sure what the battery has left in it.
This is the part the industry keeps underpricing: used EV residuals are genuinely hard, and they're getting harder.
Three things are colliding:
→ Battery health is the real value driver, and most valuations still ignore it.
→ Model cycles are fast. A two-year-old EV can already feel a generation behind.
→ New-car pricing keeps moving, and used values move with it - often down, often suddenly.
A single-number valuation has always been a polite fiction. On combustion cars, the fiction mostly held. On EVs, it falls apart in public.
"This car is worth €24,500" tells you nothing about how confident anyone is in that number. And confidence is exactly what you need when you're carrying the stock.
The honest version looks more like: "€22,000–€27,000, here's what's driving the spread, here's how sure we are."
That's not hedging. That's just telling the truth about uncertainty instead of hiding it behind a tidy figure.
The valuation tools that survive this will be the ones that show their work - a range, the drivers, the sources.
Genuine question for the dealers here: what's hurting most on used EVs right now - pricing them in, or pricing them out?
We're building VehIQ around confidence-aware valuation precisely because of weeks like the ones ahead.
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