> This does not seem likely as even by adding this many cars to the market, there’s no way they would sell at 25% of value

agree.

and how does decommissioning 2200 chargers cost $50M - $100M? that's $22K - $44K each.

you turn the breaker off. you don't need to rip the chargers out.

regardless of whether or not you think it's a good idea, breathlessly inflating it to "might be" a billion dollars does not convince me more.

I'm thinking they might sell/license the rights (not sure if that's the right phrasing) to these charging stations along with the maintenance/repair costs to a private company. If they spend $100M to decommission them, I will be very surprised.

> a billion dollars does not convince me more.

Buying up gasoline vehicles and buying fossil fuel for them will cost money. But I don't think that'll be a billion dollars.

Omitting that would still leave the additional cost at $800M.

That might be more accurate.

As it is not, this journalist does not have credibility with me.

Yeah let's say they they magically go on the market for 25% of their original value ... the demand would be pretty damn absurd.

This whole situation is dumb, but 25% of original value doesn't make much sense.

Rental car companies ended up selling teslas for under $25K back when that was unusually low for an EV.

These days, a decent used EV costs less than that, so I imagine the government will have to dump whatever model they have 25K of for $20k or less. That’s probably still more than 25% msrp, but not by much.

If they bought 3s for $40k then it’s way more than 25%.

I’ve been looking for low price teslas and haven’t found a drop yet. But I hope it comes soon.