If you can charge at home, they’re an amazing deal. I think the vast majority of households with >= 2 cars would be best served by one of them being an EV.

Even a ten year old Leaf for $4k is still useful to soak up the around-town driving that an average family does most of their miles in.

There are much better articles addressing this topic. The good ones generally reference this study: https://www.geotab.com/blog/ev-battery-health/

Given that you can expect to get well over 200,000 miles and/or 20 years out of a large liquid cooled EV battery, there are some screaming good deals out there.

tl;dr Yes! They're a good deal!

I know some people who bought one of those little electric "golf cart" like vehicles to drive around the neighborhood.

It seems these cost between $15K and $30K!

I paid $15K for a used Nissan Leaf, with 150 miles of range, and a bit of the factory warranty still in effect.

Personally, I don't see why the Leaf gets such a bad rap. I would like more range than 150 miles, but this much serves all of my typical driving (including freeway, which the golf carts can't do at all).

The EV acceleration (and one-pedal driving) are awesome. No internal combustion vehicle can ever match the performance of an EV.

My expectation is that the overwhelming majority of people drive less than 150 miles the overwhelming majority of the times they leave the house, i.e. they almost never need the gas provided range.

I do still have a gasoline van that I use during long distance travel, but this is once or twice a year.

I think the overwhelming majority of objections only exist between the objector's ears.

I always charge in the driveway, and haven't bought gas in over 6 months.

Try it, you'll like it...