That is certainly one way of looking at it 
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As an aside, just to say “One for the Road” has come onto Amazon Prime TV. Three 50-year old classics and some older presenters = mayhem as usual. I enjoyed it but its two hours long so a break perhaps.
The cost saving of an EV has nothing to do with the purchase price or its second hand value. The greenhouse gases damaging the planet, the toxic emissions killing people in urbanised areas, the noise pollution requiring billions spent on soundproofing in urban buildings are only a tiny fraction of the problem with ICEs.
There are HUGE costs in just getting the petrol/diesel to your car. The earthquake machines destroy flora and fauna when searching for even more oil on land. Sparker arrays destroy fish and fishing during offshore exploration. Onshore oil fields consume, and pollute vast areas of real estate when being exploited and are fabulously expensive to reinstate when exhausted (if it is ever actually done). Off shore oil wells pollute the oceans and exclude huge areas from fishing. Then getting the oil to refineries produces a huge carbon footprint and results in many heavily polluting accidents. Refineries take up huge chunk of real estate usually in scenic coastal areas, have many accidents, and a huge carbon contribution. Then fleets of tankers clog up highways getting the stuff to retail outlets which again require huge chunks of real estate, underground storage of dangerous liquids and require individuals to pump the stinking, highly inflammable fuel into their cars.
By not making an EV your next choice of personal transport based simply on the purchase price, you are simply transferring the cost to yourself and others to somewhere else. [rant over emoji]
Not that I disagree with your rant but low residuals are likely to put at least some people off buying new.
But, buying used is better for the planet and, as Corona says, it might be the time to grab a bargain.
I think, (assuming these reports are correct), that the situation must change. Both the UK and EU are committed to stopping the sale of new ICEs in 10 years or so. What will the resale price of a ICE car be as that deadline approaches. Would you buy a second hand ICE car knowing that production was stopping, presumably spare parts would eventually become problematical and there would be far fewer petrol stations with everyone else changing to EVs?
One criticism of EV cars is that they are so quiet they may cause accidents to cyclists and pedestrians who do not hear them coming. I have come up with my own solution. Hang a bell (one of those used by the chasse to keep track of their dogs in the woods) underneath the car. It cannot be heard inside the car but can be heard by anyone within impact range. 
When incandecent lamps were announced to be pulled from the market certainly in the EU, Philips set up new factories to increase production to supply the demand. Even people on SF back then were buying and storing.
You be the judge, 
True but I can’t see people stock piling ICEs when there will eventually no petrol stations to refuel them.
Demand for fuel and parts will probably dry up gradually, I can’t see me being worried about replacing my current car with another ICE in '25 or '26 - I’ll give the one after that more thought (or maybe there won’t be a new car after that).
I can’t see that before 2050 or so and I probably won’t be driving myself anywhere by then, even if still breathing
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Whereas American companies never snoop do they
Reminds me of those chains/straps that some people used to dangle onto the road surface to stop people in the car getting travel sick. Will probably work about as well too.
EDIT: Isn’t SF wonderful? I wrote that reply last Friday or Saturday I think, but got interrupted in the middle of it by my Livebox continuously switching itself off and over the course of the next 2 days or so had to log back in to everything. Fingers crossed after my friend’s recommendation to do a hard reboot, unplug and replug, it is OK now. Fingers crossed. 
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I remember those straps. They never worked for me either. The bell on the other hand is actually working well. As I approach dog walkers, they stop and turn to look. Much less embarrassing than a blast on the horn to make them aware.
I was only using it as a “proof of concept” but it looks a bit naff. Mark 2 is in the pipeline.
Poorly built with electrics that quit on a regular basis?
These things?
I thought they were supposed to stop static buildup, not prevent travel sickness.
Travel sickness is caused by the fluid in the inner ear moving making your brain think you’re travelling but your other senses not sensing any movement or at least not the same type of movement, so not sure this rubber strip could ever prevent that 
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IIRC, there was a belief (nonsense obviously) that the static build up caused travel sickness.
I had to have one on my VW pre-living in France as I kept getting electric shocks every time I touched the bodywork, I think it helped a bit but everyone blamed my long hair at the time as I was also getting the shocks in M&S when I touched their metal counter rails
Might have been the nylon underwear 
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Exactly that, don’t know if it stopped travel sickness but I do know that is what was claimed for them.
Anecdotal but my mum had one on the Mini she used to drive… and I had awful car sickness as a child 