AI slop article with all the usual AI slop logic issues.

A subset of the issues because I don't have the time or the interest to poke every hole.

• It doesn't address the initial apples to oranges / beater to brand new ridiculous comparison because it only considers prices of recently new BYD and Tesla (2024). Comparing a 15 year old car to a new car on price whether they are EV or ICE is just stupid

• Your own AI slop link admits you can get older imports in from the rest of EU - usually Germany because of proximity and wealth. Something that used to be extremely common only a few decades ago and is only recently reducing most probably due to the increase in Poland's wealth. So saying older EV beaters are unavailable is straight up untrue.

• The focus on battery health is both one-sided and ill-informed. Plenty of older ICE cars have massive costly issues - ask AUDI owners about timing belts and what that does to an ICE when they (very expensively) break. Furthermore you can easily check the health of a battery in almost all EVs - so no surprises on the motorway at 120km/hr when it goes bang and stops. You buy something that you know the state of (or dont buy it).

• The focus on battery health is also wildly overcooked - battery issues almost always surface quickly (as they are usually build faults), and get fixed/replaced under warranty. Plenty of studies show that most EV batteries will last 150-300,000 miles/200-400,000 Km (links below) - longer than the expected life of most cars (average about 125,000 miles / 200,000Km before they are scrapped)

• The REAL issue with comparing an EV beater with an ICE beater is that EVs have progress at a lightning fast rate over the last 20 years - early EVs like the leaf against a recent EV is like a model T against a Lamborghini. Whereas ICE changes in the last 20 are pretty small. A leaf has a shitty tiny battery compared to what you can get now - it is very definitely worth buying as new as possible, particularly given the mileage and hence the number of years you can reasonably expect to get

https://evinsightdaily.com/how-long-do-ev-batteries-last-real-world-data-and-battery-degradation-2026/

https://voltchek.app/blog/ev-battery-degradation-statistics

https://www.gadgetreview.com/300000-kilometers-and-still-going-the-engineering-secret-extending-ev-battery-life

If you like I can generate an AI slop article to match yours and pull apart all the holes one by one - the problem with them always is you have to do multiple iterations before they stop saying "good input, I didn't dig into that, let me have a look" (actually that's not quite the wording Claude uses - hmm I instantly recognise it when I see it but can't yet play it back - oh well you get the gist)