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Blog18 June 2026 · 5 min read

A used EV is not a used petrol car, and pricing it like one costs everyone

Odometer and year tell you very little about a battery. Until the resale market can read battery condition, buyers overpay and sellers lose value they earned.

Aparajith · ATEV

Two identical cars of the same year and mileage can have meaningfully different batteries, depending on how they were charged and in what climate. The resale market has no way to see that, so it prices in suspicion — which punishes the careful owner and rewards nobody.

What a battery-aware valuation needs

Charging behaviour over time, fast-charge frequency, thermal history, and how the pack actually performs against its rated capacity. Much of that can be inferred from charging data the owner already generates.

A careful owner should be paid for being careful.

Aparajith, Co-founder

Valuation and the marketplace follow charging in our build order, for exactly this reason: the data has to exist before the number means anything.

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